PETALING JAYA: It was RM1.45mil gone in a matter of minutes.
Three staff of a firm, including a bodyguard, had collected the cash from a bank in three bags on Thursday.
They had returned to their office, dealing in stock investments, in Phileo Damansara I and had entered the lift from the basement carpark at 4.20pm. Two robbers rushed into the lift.
District police chief Asst Comm Azmi Abu Kassim said the robbers, wearing sunglasses and baseball caps, shoved the bodyguard aside and pointed an object resembling a pistol at his head.
He said the two other staff were told to keep quiet.
"When the bodyguard tried to disarm the robber but failed, one of robbers slammed one of the staff against the wall of the lift.
"The robbers tied their victims cable wires and took the money including RM1,500 belonging to the bodyguard and three mobile phones," he added.
Before the robbers left, one of them gave a message to the victims' employer "jangan main-main dengan kita" (don't mess with us). They fled in an unidentified vehicle.
ACP Azmi said the victims, aged between 29 and 35, untied themselves before going up to their office on the fifth floor and later lodged a police report.
"There was closed circuit television in the parking lot but it did not capture the robbery," he said.
ACP Azmi said the bodyguard had been with the company for five months. He would escort the staff when withdrawing large sums of money.
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