PDRM: RTD robbery was an inside job

KUALA LUMPUR: Investigations into a heist at the Kuala Lumpur Road Transport Department (RTD) Wangsa Maju by two parang wielding robbers on July 4 turned out to be an inside job when police arrested a RTD clerk and eight others on Wednesday.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Commissioner Datuk Amar Singh Ishar Singh said the 40-year-old female clerk who is a staff of the Wangsa Maju RTD was the mastermind of the case.
He said the other suspects were RTD runners who frequented the headquarters, a female Rela member and an Indonesian man aged between 24 and 67.
Amar Singh said police recovered RM111,400 of over RM754,000 that was stolen by the robbers just before the RTD was closing up its operations on July 4.
He said the suspects had planned the robbery two months prior to pulling it off early this month.
"We also recovered RM5,256 worth of jewellery from the suspects. Our investigations show that the clerk was the insider who was behind the case and most of the seized cash was recovered from her. She was formerly in the licensing unit and recently was moved to the accounts department." he told a press conference.
He said the case was solved but police are on the hunt for the two robbers who are still at large and are believed to be in possession of the rest of the stolen cash and four cheques worth about RM445,000 the men grabbed from the accounts department of the KL JPJ headquarters
Sources revealed that two months earlier, the detained RTD clerk who was desperate for cash had allegedly conspired to execute the robbery and had approached a runner known to her.
The runner is said to have contacted several bad hats who agreed to carry out the heist and split the stolen cash with him and the clerk. With the RTD insider's information he received, the runner allegedly shared and tipped off the robbers on the appropriate time and day to strike the RTD branch.