NOVOSIBIRSK, May 14 (RIA Novosti) - A branch of Russia's state savings bank Sberbank in East Siberia upped a reward for any information on the recent bank robbery from 300,000 rubles (about $11,600) to 5 million rubles (about $194,000), the branch's board chairman said Monday.
Unidentified people broke into Sberbank's branch in Chita early Saturday, killing two security guards and stealing more than 38 million rubles (about $1.5 million), nine ounces of gold and 62 ounces of silver bullion in one of the biggest heists in Russia in the past 10 years, local prosecutors earlier said.
Maxim Poletayev added that the bank knows a portion of the stolen banknotes' registration numbers, as two of its clients wrote them down when they deposited them.
"Now, all the bank's branches and law enforcement bodies know those numbers" Poletayev said.
