Inspector held over RM600,000 robbery

KUALA LUMPUR: A police inspector was arrested on Wednesday for investigations into a RM600,000 robbery involving staff of a foreign currency exchange outlet.
The staff, a male driver and a female clerk of the moneychanger outlet, had left an apartment in Brickfields at about 12pm and were on their way to their workplace in Bandar Sunway when they were flagged down by two men who were driving a Proton Waja with police logos and markings on it near Jalan Maarof, Bangsar.
A man clad in a police uniform stepped out of the Waja and approached the driver, who is a foreigner, before demanding for his driver's licence and identification documents.
The man then searched the victim's car before grabbing a bag containing the cash.
The robber then questioned the victims on the large sum of cash they were carrying before leaving the scene with it.
He told the victims to go to the federal police headquarters in Bukit Aman to explain themselves for being in possession of the sum.
The victims insisted on following the man but were threatened with arrest.
The robbers fled with the cash and the driver's identity card.
Sources said the victims headed to Bukit Aman to recover the cash but failed to trace the "policeman".
Soon after, they lodged a police report and checks by investigators showed that the vehicle used by the robbers was indeed a police car registered to a district police headquarters in the Klang Valley.
A police inspector attached to a district CID was detained hours later and is under remand for investigations.
It is learnt that investigators are yet to recover the stolen cash and are looking for several others who are believed to be behind the robbery.