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Wednesday, April 02, 2003
PNP payroll robbery could be inside job: probers
By Joe A. Medinilla
SIBULAN - Investigators are suspecting an insider of the Philippine National Police could be behind the P367,000 payroll robbery incident last Friday.
A police source at the PNP headquarters in Camp Fernandez, Agan-an said the heist could have been planned because the robbers knew the exact time when the payroll was in transit from the Land Bank of the Philippines to the command.
The source who declined to be identified said there was also a question on the motorcycle carrying the police officers running out of gasoline.
The source believed that an insider within the PNP command could be behind the robbery, fuelling speculations that the city's most wanted man Rayboy Guinit is under the protection of rogue cops.
Initial investigation pinpointed to the notorious snatcher and hold-upper as responsible for the robbery of the PNP Cooperative money some 250 metres from the command headquarters.
SPO2 Nilo Lauron, manager of the PNP Cooperative, said two of the cooperative's civilian employees had just withdrawn the payroll and heading for their office at the PNP headquarters compound when their motorcycle sputtered out for lack of gasoline and stopped.
At that point, three men that included who was believed to be Guinit announced a hold up, took the payroll and fled aboard a Yamaha DT motorcycle in the direction of Dumaguete City.
The two civilian employees described one of the suspects as having a height of about 5'11" and looked similar to Guinit.
The two other suspects were unidentified.
Lauron said the PNP is looking at all angles to try to solve the robbery.
(April 2, 2003 issue)
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