Inside job eyed in QC school robbery

MANILA, Philippines—The police are looking into the possible involvement of a school employee in Monday’s heist at a college on Commonwealth Avenue in Barangay Diliman, Quezon City.

They are particularly interested in a cashier’s possible links with any of the men who robbed the Mary the Queen College of Science and Technology of P500,000 after a security camera caught the employee touching one of thieves’ shoulders.

At 11:30 a.m. on Monday, three men barged into the school. As one of them pointed a gun at the security guard on duty at the gate, the two others entered the cashier’s office and took the money representing the tuition payments made by enrollees.

A check of the security camera later showed one of the two cashiers briefly touching one of the robbers’ shoulders as they walked past each other. “If they didn’t know each other, he would have reacted violently, maybe even pointed a gun at her,” Supt. Segundo Lagundi Jr., commander of the Quezon City Police District Station 6 which has jurisdiction over the area, said in a phone interview on Tuesday.

On Monday, Lagundi said investigators were already looking into the possibility of an inside job as the robbers seemed to know exactly where the cashier’s office was as well as the fact that it was handling a large amount of money at that time. Lagundi said the cashier would be subjected to a polygraph test. Jaymee T. Gamil