Today, most major local newspaper reported about 8 people detained stealing RM300,000 from Penang BNM office Light Street.
In Kosmo the news stated that said that they're the officer of Bank Negara Malaysia and in The Star the news stated that they're staff from a financial firm. My source said the Star news is correct.
Here are the rest of the news:
Seven men and a woman, aged in their 20s to 30s were arrested following police report lodged by the financial firm’s supervisor after receiving a complaint from Bank Negara about the missing money.
The eight staff were from a financial firm elected by Bank Negara to perform computation of money at the bank.
It was believed that the suspects have been conducting the fraudulent activity at the currency processing room since September last year.
The missing amount was detected by Bank Negara during an internal investigation.
Penang CID Chief Senior Asst Comm Mazlan Kesah when contacted, said that the eight suspects will be remanded for three days beginning Tuesday to assist in investigations.
Source: The Star.
Nowadays, it's not easy to get a hard earn money and is not easy to find a new job. Stealing in Bank Negara Malaysia means you're willing to get caught because all your data are with their security when you want to do work in there, you cannot go anywhere. When I heard about this news from a friend, my first thaught is that the thief is BNM staff but apparently they're not, correct me if I am wrong.
I and some people in Malaysia Numismatics are still looking for a way to visit Bank Negara Mint in Shah Alam. If any of you do know how we can visit the Mint, please help me and send the information via my email. We don't want to steal money but we need to learn how our money was made in our local mint.
