Air Peace, on Wednesday, apprehended a passenger, Vitalis Nwabuzor, on-board Abuja-Port Harcourt flight P47192 on July 27, 2023, for allegedly stealing N1million cash, Savannah News Reports.
Air peace spokesman Stanley Olisa, made this known in a press statement released to newsmen.
Olisa stated that Nwabuzor stole the said amount contained in a brown envelope but was caught by the owner of the money with the intervention of the airline’s staff.
In the statement: “During the flight, Nwabuzor took another passenger’s computer bag from the overhead cabin, took the brown envelope containing the money, put the computer bag in another luggage compartment and moved to an empty seat at the back of the aircraft
“He was one of the first few to disembark despite the announcement of proper disembarkation sequence by the crew.
“He was eventually caught and the money retrieved from him. Different currencies in different denominations were found on him,” the statement said.
The passenger was handed over to the security operatives of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) for proper investigation.
