A postal worker detained as a suspect in a $35.6 million robbery, Switzerland’s biggest ever, has confessed, prosecutors said Wednesday.
More than half of the loot still was missing despite several searches since police arrested 13 suspects last weekend and found $13.5 million, Zurich prosecutor Rolf Jaeger said.
Police are seeking a 28-year-old Lebanese student living in Switzerland, Hassan El Bast, and have put out an international search warrant.
The money was stolen from a Zurich post office Sept. 1.
Jaeger said the confession came from a 24-year-old Italian national who had worked for the Swiss postal agency for two years.
Jaeger said the confession related to how the crime took place and the perpetrators, but not to the location of the missing money.
He wouldn’t name the detained suspects because of Swiss data protection rules.
The robbers drove into a guarded post office courtyard with a small truck disguised as a postal vehicle and got away with crates of the postal agency’s cash.
