Robbers steal $4.8 million

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CNN) -- Police forces around Denmark are trying to track down three men who stole 42 million kroner ($4.8 million) from a money transporter in the country's biggest ever heist.

Among the suspects is one of the transporter's two drivers.

Police say 24-year-old Andrew Lawrence Johannisson drew a gun on his co-driver, forced him to stop the vehicle and then handcuffed him to the steering wheel, in the suburb of Glostrup.

Johannisson's two accomplices were waiting in a rented Ford Transit nearby. They quickly loaded the money -- in Danish, Swedish and Norwegian currencies -- into the van and disappeared.

A couple of hours later the police found the abandoned Ford but no trace of the robbers.

Officers have been using a helicopter in the search and have advised border police to be on the lookout for the three men.

Johanisson had only been at the security company S&P Security Services for at short while. Managing director John Marshall refused to comment on the heist and the now former employee.

Denmark's previous biggest robbery took place in November 1988 when 13 million kroner was stolen from a post office in Copenhagen. In March this year robbers stole nine million kroner in a hold-up in Hilleroed, north of Copenhagen.

CNN Denmark

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