Thieving pair steals accountant's wallet
By Rosli Abidin Yahya 

The public is advised to be wary of thieves in broad daylight utilising various techniques in carrying out their criminal activities. Last Wednesday, an office girl lost her wallet to a thief who walked into her office room on the pretext of showing a cheque.

The Filipina accountant said she was an entertaining a client because her office was letting out one of the rooms.

While she was busy explaining requirements to the interested party, she saw the man was trying to send a message. But at that time she did not suspect anything fishy.

When the Filipina was on her way to show the man the room which was to be rented out, another man suddenly walked into the Kiulap establishment.

She thought the man was a delivery man so she left him alone at the counter.

After she finished showing the room to the first person, she then proceeded to go to her office room.

She was startled when she saw that the man was in the room.

"I asked him what she was doing in the room. He showed me a cheque on the pretext that the item was meant for the office.

"When I told him the cheque was not for the office the man and the other person left quickly.

"I then went back to my room and found out my wallet had been stolen from my handbag," she said.

She said she was lucky to discover the loss earlier as she had time to inform her bank on the losses of her cash withdrawal card and other credit cards.

"I have about $100 in the wallet but if he could get his hands on my ATM machine and withdraw the money using my card, he would have been much richer by now. Luckily I informed my loss to the concerned bank."

A police report had been made on the same day. She had no doubt that the theft was planned by the two persons as no one else came inside her office that day.

"The modus operandi of the two persons was carried efficiently. I could not contact the person who wanted to rent the room as he did not leave any contact number to me," she said.

She said the two persons spoke with Indonesian dialect.

Courtesy of Sunday Bulletin