A 53-year-old Nigerian man who works at the United Nations was arrested
in connection with a string of bank robberies in Manhattan, over the
past month and a half, law enforcement sources tell News 4 New York. The
NYPD’s Major Case Squad arrested Abdullahi Shuaibu, of Queens, on
Monday, April 17th, at his office at the Foreign Press Centers across
from the United Nations building. Police believe he robbed banks while on work breaks.
Law enforcement sources say Shuaibu robbed a HSBC bank at 40th Street
and Third Avenue on Monday and then returned to work shortly before he
was arrested. They say he’s wanted in at least three other bank
robberies.
Shuaibu is listed as a communication specialist at the U.N. He
apparently works for the Panapress News Agency out of Nigeria. A photo
on Facebook shows him shaking hands with a U.N. official inside the
General Assembly.
Police believe he’s the man who robbed a Santander Bank on Madison
Avenue on Feb. 27, a Bank of America on Third Avenue on March 13, and a
Santander Bank on Third Avenue on March 27. In each of the robberies,
the suspect passed a note to a clerk demanding money.
Police charged Shuaibu with two counts of robbery and two counts of attempted robbery
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