Police doubt security guards' account of RM2mil "robbery"

SHAH ALAM: Four security guards on collection rounds stopped for dinner leaving RM2mil in their van. Along came some robbers and drove the van away.

The 9pm incident on Monday was reported by the guards to the police.

But the police are somehow sceptical over what happened as described by the guards in their statements. 

Selangor police chief Senior Deputy Comm Datuk Abdul Samah Che Mat said there were irregularities in the accounts given by the guards and driver.

Police believed they were somehow involved in the heist.

Abdul Samah said the four guards reported that they had finished collecting money from several locations in Seri Kembangan before stopping near a restaurant in Jalan Lestari Perdana 7.

The three guards left their pumpgun in the van with the driver and went for dinner.

"When they came back 15 minutes later, they claim that the van was missing. They later found it abandoned nearby with the driver whose hands were tied with flexicuffs,” Abdul Samah said.

The driver told police that two men with pistols ambushed him in the van, tied him up and drove off the van. They ditched the van after grabbing the money from the back of the vehicle.

Abdul Samah said the "robbers" did not take the pumpgun which was  left in the van. The driver was not injured in the incident.

“The standard operating procedure does not allow them to stop while on their rounds. They were carrying a lot of money, why did they stop to eat?

"That’s against their training and SOP,” he said.

The four guards have been remanded and investigated for robbery.