Bengaluru: A driver with a cash logistics firm and his colleague sped away with a van ferrying Rs 90 lakh to ATMs in west Bengaluru on Monday evening. The vehicle was found abandoned on the city outskirts without the cash.

A special team has been formed to nab the accused. The accused are Narayanaswamy, 47, a resident of Vidyaranyapura working as a driver with CMS Securities, and Narasimharaju, 27, of Kamalanagar, working as a cash loader with the firm.

A senior police officer said Narayanaswamy, who works as an assistant, along with driver Narasimharaju and the security guard Nataraj, had collected the cash from super markets, malls and other business centres in Basavanagudi, Rajajinagar, Malleswaram and other localities in a Tata Sumo vehicle belonging to Narasimharaju.

Police registered a case of theft against the duo following a complaint by Raghunath B, an official of CMS Securities. The trio was assigned to collect money from various client-banks and load it into ATM kiosks in south and west Bengaluru.