Missing millions at top Costa Rica bank spark investigation

FILE PHOTO: The National Bank of Costa Rica's headquarters are pictured in San Jose, Costa Rica February 12, 2020. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate/File Photo

SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rica's attorney general's office has opened an investigation into the disappearance of some $6 million at the Central American country's largest commercial bank, bank officials said on Tuesday.

The 3.3 billion colones ($6.2 million) in question were first detected missing at the National Bank of Costa Rica in August through internal audits, and five employees have been suspended as a result, the bank's interim manager, Jaime Murillo, told a press conference.