KUALA LUMPUR, July 3 ― An investment company lost over RM1.4 million in cash to two robbers who waylaid its three staff returning from the bank at a basement carpark in Phileo Damansara, Petaling Jaya, here yesterday, police said today.

Petaling Jaya Police chief ACP Azmi Abu Kassim said the robbery took place at 4.20pm when two accounts officers and a security guard of the company, in their 20s and 30s, were returning to the company after withdrawing the money from a bank in Damansara Heights.

Two bespectacled men wearing masks and baseball caps approached the trio at level two of the basement carpark, he said.

One of them pushed aside the guard as he pointed a pistol to his head while the other banged the head of one of the officers against the wall and tied up the hands of both with some cable, he said.

“They snatched three laptop computer bags containing the money and fled in a car,” he said when contacted.

Azmi said the robbers also relieved the trio of RM1,500 and three mobile telephones. ― Bernama