WEBVTT - A gold grab, a hire car and a town called Dollar 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:04.080 What would unfold in the next few minutes would go 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:08.479 down as the third biggest heist ever in Victorian history. 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.239 He says, I've seen a photo, obviously implying that other 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.560 bad guys took the gold and buried it. But he 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.080 thinks he knows where it might be. In a big 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:21.160 antique desk in the house at Hawthorne, officers find a 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:25.119 semi automatic handgun, a couple of pieces of gold, and 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:29.639 more cut up number plate. This is where listeners the 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:33.400 plot thickens. I'm Andrew Ruhle. This is life and crimes 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:37.400 right back at the start of the COVID pandemic. A 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:41.680 very good heist unfolded in Melbourne, in the heart of 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.159 the city. It didn't get a lot of attention until 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:49.160 arrests were made and the truth was discovered. Now, I'm 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.320 not here to say that every heist of money or 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.640 gold or whatever or jewelry has an inside man. I 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.280 don't want to claim that because that might be wrong 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.440 in some cases. But in this case there clearly was 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:07.920 an inside man, but it wasn't obvious at the time. 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:12.000 What happened was on a Monday morning, April or twenty seventh. 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.240 I think it was of twenty twenty, so he just 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:18.479 a few weeks into the pandemic, which began in March. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:23.720 A man pushing a trolley comes to a building in 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:27.480 Colin Street in the city. That very ordinary looking building 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:32.280 houses the Melbourne Gold Company. He's pushing a trolley. He's 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.520 dressed in tradey gear. He's wearing a COVID mask, which 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.480 was a given of course at that time, perfect for 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:44.160 stopping infection or cross infection, but even better to mask 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.160 you from other people so they can't tell who you are. 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.480 He presses the intercom and says he's got a delivery. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.680 Once he gets inside, he pulls out a pistol and 0:01:55.720 --> 0:02:02.120 he orders the gold company employee that has opened the 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.880 door to take him into the office. Now, the man 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:10.079 who let the fake tradeing in was Daniel Ead who 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.240 was employed by the Melbourne Gold Company. He takes him 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:17.760 up to the seventh floor where they've got gold and 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.160 cash stored. What would unfold in the next few minutes 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.520 would go down as the third biggest heist ever in 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.640 Victorian history. And what Daniel ad would tell the police 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.079 a little while later was that this man tied him up, 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.600 pointed a gun at him, threatened him said, show us 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.680 where the money is, showing me where the gold is, 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:42.280 and then the robber proceeded to get hold of the 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:46.360 cash and the jewelry and the gold. There was something 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.120 like twenty eight key loads of gold. It's a lot 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.440 of ounces, at about three and a half thousand dollars 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.799 an ounce. There was also more than seven hundred thousand 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.399 dollars in cash, and I think there was also jewelry. 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.360 He loads all that up and he leaves, and of 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.160 course he leaves Daniel D, the employee, still tied up 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:08.160 in the building on the seventh floor. It's only when 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.359 two customers come to the store a little while later 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:16.040 that Daniel D is untied and can raise the alarm. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.760 Initially police thought about three million dollars worth of gold 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.920 and cash had been taken. Of course, it was a 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.840 little bit more when armed crime squad detectives arrived on 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.239 the scene. Uniform police were already there, but they were 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.920 dealing with another incident just nearby. There'd been an incident 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.480 at a bank just down the street. Now it just 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:41.080 shows you you can have good luck or you can 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:45.640 have bad luck. And in this day April onod twenty seventh, 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:52.200 twenty twenty. The crooks, who had almost the perfect wrought 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.880 had some bad luck. You can imagine what would happen 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.520 when our offender pushes his way out of the building 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.000 with his with his trolley, with his high of his 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:06.800 vest and goes over towards a white ute that he's got. 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:11.880 When he sees police around the street, he must have thought, 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.040 oh my god, they're already onto me. But apparently he 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.320 kept his cool and he just walked over to a 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:23.240 white ute and he calmly unloads boxes and bags or 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.760 whatever into it, and then he heads off. But this 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.919 other incident was a stroke of luck for the police 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:37.080 because fearing that the other bank incident might escalate, safe 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:41.480 city cameras were moved to the location, and that provided 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.719 Crimes God detect this with a fortunate breakthrough. So the 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.080 incident down the street meant that some of the cameras 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.920 that are used for security around the streets were swung 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:56.200 into that area, and this gave them footage of cars 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.560 and movement that they otherwise might not have had. Now 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.320 I'm in debted to my colleague John Kaylor, who has 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:06.960 written this story recently was published in the Sunday Herald Sun, 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:08.960 and I thought it was one of the more interesting 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.800 high stories we've seen for a long time, and I 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.560 proposed to steal some of John's most excellent material with 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:20.279 his blessing, because he's explained it very well. Now, the 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.520 police officer who's ended up telling this story in retrospect 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:28.560 to John Kaylor is Detective Sergeant Mark Walsh. Clearly one 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.480 of the most interesting cases he's worked on. So Detective 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.520 Sergeant Walsh says this to Kaylor, it just happened to 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.040 be the same time that this offender was doing the 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.279 arm robbery. The camera captures the offender going back to 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:44.280 his car. Sergeant Walsh said, we wouldn't have had identification 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.200 on the car straight away if the other job, that is, 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.520 the other bank job hadn't happened. So we look at 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.479 the CCTV and it is of this man getting into 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:59.039 a white hold in Colorado and it's completely stock standard. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:01.800 I thought it had to be a fleet car or 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.000 a higher car, and then we noticed two little stickers 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.800 in the windscreen on the side window. I took a 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.600 guest they were likely to be bar coats, and I 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.320 knew Budget scan in and scan out their higher cars. 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.719 So we contacted all the higher car companies because the 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.400 car had stolen plates on it, and all of them 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:26.720 said they didn't use hold In Colorado's bumma. So hitting 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.840 a dead end, the detectives headed out to where the 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:33.000 number plates were stolen. Another dead end. There were no 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:38.279 fingerprints and no CCTV footage. This is at premises where 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:43.239 people have had their number plates stolen. Detective Sergeant Walsh says, 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:45.880 I just thought, humor me, We'll go to a few 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.760 of the higher car companies around here and double check. 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.640 So the first one we go to is Budget in Camberwell, 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.320 and I'll pull into the driveway and sure enough there's 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:02.120 this Holden Colorado sitting there being cleaned. The person we 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.840 spoke to initially just made the call off their own 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.360 knowledge without properly looking into it. They only have four 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.120 of them in the country, and three of them are 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.280 used in the minds. What he means there is that 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:17.960 when they'd initially checked with Budget, the person they took 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.320 into a Budget said, oh, no, we haven't got any 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:24.800 of those Holden Colorados, which was almost true. Basically in 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.640 Melbourne they don't have any hold In Colorados. There's only 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.400 four of that particular model in the country. Three of 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.760 them are up in the mines and only one is 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:39.880 in Melbourne, so that answer was almost true, but not quite. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.240 There was one in Melbourne and guess what, the crook 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:48.080 had hired it and that's where the crook came undone. 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.720 So once the police had established that this was the case, 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.200 Budget told the police that the carab been hired out 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:58.360 the afternoon before the robbery and have been brought back 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:02.840 about two hours after the time, so basically it has 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:08.360 to be it. So the police start looking closer. The 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.840 car had been hired out in the name of an 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:16.920 Asian female, but inquiries hit another dead end. She's got 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:20.240 no involvement, she's got no criminal history. She's out in 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:24.920 a really nice house in Hawthorne, Sergeant Moss said her partner, 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:29.800 Karl Kachami. He's a finance teacher at Deacon University. He 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.480 owns a second house on Brunswick Street in Fitzroy, which 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.640 is a mansion, and he owns an antique shop. He 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.480 just doesn't fit the profile of an arm robber at all. 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.360 So the police have got nothing, but the pressure is 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.080 on due to the fact that this is Victoria's third 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:51.839 biggest heist in history. It's worth millions, and they know 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.439 that they've got to get hold of somebody for doing it. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.840 They know that the cash is going to vanish and 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.040 that the gold can be quickly melted down, so the 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:07.400 pressure is on to act. They follow this Carl Kachami 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.040 because they can. There's no other lead that they've got. 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:17.160 It seems that the Colorado car ute leads to him, 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.320 so they follow him. They just want to see if 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.240 he talks to anybody or what he does. Now, if 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.120 you're out there planning a heist, maybe learn from this 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:30.160 what not to do. He goes to Bunnings and he 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:34.720 buys some long PVC pipes, which police think is a 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.400 little bit strange, but it's hard to know. Depends what 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.080 he wants to do with it. Then he stops near 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.520 his mansion in Fitzroy and he dumps some stuff in 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:47.440 a rubbish bin, which of course always interests police or 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:52.480 private detectives or anybody else. The investigators go and look 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.400 in the bin and the only thing of value was 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.120 a cut up number plate, which would seem to be 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.840 of great value, you'd think. Sergeant Welsh says, there was 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.920 the letter S on each of them. We just thought 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.720 it was a bit dodgy. The letters matched where the 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.800 letters on the stolen number plates would be. Then we 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.480 watched as he took these PVC pipes into his mansion 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:18.480 in Fitzroy. We just thought we're going to have to 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.800 grab him because we have nothing else. The trailer is 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.600 going to go cold unless we try and do something 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:26.600 to try and get back the cash and the goal. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.800 So they grab him, and Carl Kachami quite calm. He's 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.720 a lecturer, he's forty eight years old. He's a cool customer. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:40.920 He denies any involvement. The police are puzzled because this 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:45.640 guy's really well spoken, he's smart. He's sitting there saying, yep, 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.000 I hired that car, but I just moved some antiques 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.240 from my store. I'm not sure why you've arrested me. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.319 I just want to be as helpful as possible. So 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.480 we're sitting in this interview room and he's giving us 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:01.080 a story that was plausible but still a bit odd. 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.079 Well you would think that, wouldn't you. If he's dropping 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.160 cut up number plates around the place, that would be 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.959 a bit odd. During the interview, police execute a search 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:15.400 warrant on Carl's house in Hawthorne. The nice house with 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:19.320 the nice partner, the one who hired the ute. She's 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.640 probably totally innocent, I have to say. And in a 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:26.040 big antique desk in the house at Hawthorne, officers find 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.480 a semi automatic handgun, a couple of pieces of gold, 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:34.280 and more cut up number plate. This is where listeners 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:40.079 the plot thickens. Detectives have their tails up, do they what? 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:45.080 Carl then tells them a story that yes, I hired 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.640 the car. I did it for money, and when they 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.040 finished doing the arm robbery, they gave me bits of 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.079 gold and told me to hang on to the firearm 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.320 and return the car. So his story is one of 0:11:56.360 --> 0:12:01.200 those classic things with a few touches of truth in it, 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:06.280 just enough to skate over the big porky. He's saying, 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.800 I got the car, but I did it for other people, 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.840 and they did all the bad things and they just 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.319 gave me a little bit of pocket change for my help. 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.840 It's basically what he's saying. I'm just a chump, is 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.600 what he's saying. And the police are like, nah, this 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:27.400 doesn't make sense. The police said, you're probably going to 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.800 jail for this, and people are going to know you've 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:33.040 got three or four million dollars and you might know 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.400 where it is. And if we don't get it back, 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:39.079 these issues with safety and people in jail are going 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.400 to know you've got access to this money. Now that 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.600 is a very real threat. You are some sort of 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:49.960 soft squarehead customer, no friends in jail. You get put 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.880 in jail. Everyone in jail knows why you're there immediately, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.840 and if they think you have a lot of money 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:57.920 buried somewhere, it's not going to be very good for 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.000 you because they're all going to be standing over here 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.120 to get the money, and they're going to say, not 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.480 only we're going to break your fingers one by one 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:09.080 and throw boiling water over you and pull your teeth out, 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.120 whatever it takes, but we'll find out where you live 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:16.600 and we will make life very difficult for your family 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.800 or your loved ones. And this is a very real threat, 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.959 and that is why the police pointed it out. They 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:26.320 pointed out the truth to Carl Kacharmi that if he 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.160 went to jail, he was in a world of pain. 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:34.640 But anyway, for the meantime, he sticks to his story, 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.360 but he's starting to twist things around a bit, and 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.480 he says, look, I've seen a photo of where the 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.320 gold is buried, and I can take you there. His 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.120 memory is starting to come back. He says, I've seen 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:51.880 a photo, obviously implying that other bad guys took the 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.040 gold and buried it. But he thinks he knows where 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:58.000 it might be so he can take them there. So 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.120 by this time the police are away. It's ten o'clock 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.760 at night and the boss has had to call the 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.880 detectives back in after a twelve hour shift and tell 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.080 them that they're going for a drive. So they all 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.880 get in a police card, they get maps on their 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:18.120 iPhones and he leads them to a place called Dollar. Now, 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.560 when he said that, the police thought he was having 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.640 a joke with them, because you know, it's a robbery 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.920 that's worth millions of dollars, and he says he's taking 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.240 them to a place called Dollar. Little did they know 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.840 then that there is a tiny little place in South 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:36.920 Gippsland called Dollar, and it's up in the hills out 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.720 the back of you know, leaning Gathriell, Cranborough or where. 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.040 When they get there, it's a fair way. When they 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.760 get there, it's one am, it's raining and all they've 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.320 got is their phone, torches. They didn't have real torches, 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.960 which is surprising. You'd think police would have those great, big, long, 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.360 heavy duty torches that they can hit people with. But anyway, 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:03.000 they've got one shovel and a robart because that's all 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.600 they could rustle up in time. They walk five hundred 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:11.360 meters across farmland and Carl Kachami points to a rock, 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.880 So the police start digging, and they're on their hands 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.000 and knees and trying to pull away the dirt. They're 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:23.360 taking it in turns, but they're soaking wet and covered 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.160 in mud. After two hours and about one hundred and 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.920 twenty centimeters down out in the old money that's four 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:35.080 foot one hundred and twenty centimeters one point two meters. 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:39.400 That's a pretty deep hoole. They find a toolbox, the 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:45.000 same toolbox as the offender used in the CCTV footage 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:48.720 of the robbery. When they found the toolbox, the police 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.400 were expecting it to be like the movies, and they 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.760 thought that'd be all full of going gold. As news 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:59.960 spread about the police being in town, another local contacted detective. 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.480 The locals described a man that they had seen looking 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.200 puzzled and staring into a malways looking for directions to 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.800 Dollar and when one of the locals asked this guy 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.720 why was going there, he replied to do some digging. 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.640 Now the police checked CCTV and realized that the mystery 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.160 man that is described them and that they then saw 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:27.800 on CCTV in South Gippsland was in fact the gold 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.800 dealer manager Daniel Ead. Now this is the guy who 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.440 at the start of our story is the poor chap 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.440 who's been robbed. He's been tied up and robbed at 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:41.040 the gold company in Colt Street. Guess what he's out 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.520 there looking to dig up the gold, which would suggest 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.720 that he knew all about it. Was not only a 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.400 party to the scheme, he was the author of the scheme. 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:56.240 The police knew that Parol Karl Kochami wouldn't have done 0:16:56.280 --> 0:17:00.680 this alone. But it was only at this point that 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.880 the police are able to link Daniel d into the 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:11.040 cunning plot. And Sergeant Well says this, when you first 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.760 look at c c t V, you're looking at the 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.280 offender and stuff. But when we looked at the footage 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:21.119 back again, we noticed what Daniel was doing. That is 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.480 this time the police are looking at the victim, the 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:27.439 supposed victim of the robbery, and when they study his 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:33.960 actions during the robbery, they say it's only slight. But 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:40.040 as Carl comes through the door, he meaning Daniel motions 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:44.800 for him, meaning Karl, to pull the firearm out. He 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.040 just makes a slight tilt of his head. And then 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.960 there's another point where he's emptying out the cash and 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.359 Daniel motions his head pointing to the other side of 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:58.879 the room. And where was he pointing and Carl doesn't 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:02.760 pick up on it. He's pointing at a safe where 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.840 there's another six million dollars in cash and gold. Or 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:10.200 can you believe that they haven't rehearsed their plot properly? 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:16.679 And our mate, our amateur robber, our amateur fake robber, 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.920 has managed to miss six million in gold and cash 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:25.600 and get away with about half that much. Dear, oh, dear, oh, dear. 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:30.960 So a raid on Karl Kuchami's Fitzroy property revealed the 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:35.000 PVC pipes. They contained three hundred thousand dollars in cash. 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.040 Another three hundred and thirty three thousand dollars in cash, 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:43.840 believed to be Daniel EAD's share, remained missing. When the 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:46.040 game was up, the police went back to Carl and 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.879 asked him why he did it, and he said it 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.879 was all to do with COVID. He said he turned 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.439 his Fitzroy mansion into a twelve bet accommodation that he 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.720 was renting out to UNI students and when COVID hit, 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.879 all international students went home. So then his rental income 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:07.200 was lost and the house needed a lot of renovations 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:13.320 and stuff. And his part in this plot, this fake 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:18.880 robbery was the fund renovations of that old place. When 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.160 it finally went to court in twenty twenty one, the 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:26.359 inside man, Daniel Ead was sentenced to five years and 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:30.960 nine months in prison with a non parole period of 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.720 three years and nine months. That's almost four years. But 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:40.280 the fake bandit, Karl Kachami was clearly thought to be 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:46.480 the minor partner in this wrought, and he was sentenced 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:50.080 to four years in prison with a non parole period 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:55.000 of two years. And so Karl has been out and 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:59.360 about for quite a while, a sadder and wiser real 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:04.800 estate vs Because presumably he lost his excellent job of 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:11.080 teaching at Deacon University. Thanks for listening. 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