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KUALA LUMPUR: The police have registered statements of eight people in relation to the theft of jewelery worth RM3 thousand and RM 67,000 in cash on the Sungai Besi (Besraya) highway.
Brickfields OCPD Asst Comm Zairulnizam Mohd Zainuddin @ Hilmi said one of the people whose statement was recorded was the e-mail-calling driver who recorded the incident Monday before spreading the images on social media.
“We recorded the statements of all of them at 3.15pm on Tuesday.
“Two of the vehicles used in the heist were clone cars,” he added.
On Monday, a group of masked men armed with parang ambushed a jewelery dealer in a Toyota Hilux along the Besraya Expressway in a daring evening robbery.
The group also drove two Toyota Hiluxes and blocked the victim and his driver and dragged them out of the vehicle before accelerating.
ACP Zairulnizam had said the incident occurred around 3.35pm on Monday.
“We received a report on the incident approximately three hours later from a jewelry vendor who claimed that he and his driver were attacked and robbed while driving from Kuchai Lama to Sungai Besi.
“He claimed that two black Toyota Hiluxes blocked their way and three armed masked men approached his truck and smashed the windows before dragging them out of the vehicle,” he said in a statement Tuesday.
It added that the suspects then rushed in all three vehicles, including the victims’ truck, along with an undisclosed sum of cash and jewelry.
“Both the seller and the driver suffered injuries from the broken windows.
“The estimated losses are being investigated and, according to the complainant, all of the suspects were tall and wearing long sleeves and ski masks,” he said, adding that investigations revealed that the complainant had dealings with various gold shops in Kuala Lumpur.
ACP Zairulnizam said police found burned remains believed to be the Toyota Hilux of the victims in the Damansara area, Petaling Jaya.
“We are tracking the suspects involved in the case,” he said, adding that the police were also investigating whether the case was related to the July security van robbery in Rawang that involved more than RM2,000 in losses.
In that case, armed robbers followed the truck before attacking it. They later set the vehicle on fire near a factory in Sungai Bakau.
Those with information about the case should contact the police at 03-2297 9222 or head to the nearest police station.
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