Police believe a man captured on CCTV at an ATM may be able to help Strike Force Bandit detectives solve Sydney’s Bluey heist.
Police allege 63,000 unreleased $1 Bluey coins were stolen from a storage facility in Wetherill Park in July.
The “1 dollarbuck” coins were produced by the Australian Mint in a limited edition, and feature six-year-old blue heeler Bluey playing “keepy uppy” with a balloon on the front and King Charles on the back.
Two men, including an employee at the warehouse, have been charged and are before the courts.
Now police are looking for another man they believe can help shed light on the robbery. Detectives released CCTV vision of a man of Pacific Islander/Maori appearance with a black beard entering a Commonwealth Bank in Revesby.
In vision released by police, the man appeared to pull something out of his pocket that he then hands to a man sitting by the bank’s entrance.
Police are also hoping to track down the driver of a white SUV that was seen outside the bank while the other man went inside, and the driver of a Ford Territory seen driving around the warehouse where coins were stolen.
On July 31, police raided a property in Sefton, in western Sydney, where they found 189 of the missing coins, and some electronic devices.
The man in possession of the coins was a legitimate coin collector who had innocently obtained them, police said. He bought the coins for about $1.50 each.
The stolen coins were in transit from the Australian Mint to Brisbane when they were taken and released into circulation in early September. This masthead saw the limited edition coins being sold for between $15 and $26 on eBay before their official release.
Police want to find this man.Credit: NSW Police
In August, police arrested a 47-year-old male employee at the warehouse, who police allege resold the coins just hours after allegedly stealing them.
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