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Last Updated: Monday, 7 November 2005, 13:02 GMT
Second man charged over £26m raid
Millions were taken from the vaults of the Northern Bank last December
Millions were taken from the vaults of the Northern Bank last December
A second man has been in court charged in connection with the £26.5m Northern Bank robbery in Belfast last December.

Martin McAliskey, 42, of Ballybeg Road, Coalisland, was accused of making false statements to police.

He denied the charge which concerns the purchase, possession and sale of a Ford Transit van believed to have been used in the raid. He was granted bail.

Meanwhile, a 22-year-old man was arrested in Kilcoo in County Down on Monday in connection with the robbery.

On Friday, a 23-year-old County Down man denied involvement in the robbery. He was remanded in custody.

Another man is still being questioned by police in connection with the robbery which happened at the bank's Northern Ireland headquarters at Donegall Square West just before Christmas last year.

Some money seized in County Cork last February was linked to the robbery, but virtually all of the missing millions remain unrecovered.



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