A VINTAGE shop owner in Kg Baru, Kuala Lumpur, lost more than RM100,000 when her outlet was broken into while the country is in shutdown.

Dang Wangi district police chief Mohd Fahmi Visuvanathan Abdullah told The Malaysian Insight that the owner had locked up her store on March 21 and had came back to check on the premises a week later only to find that it had been burgled.

“The owner discovered the burglary on March 28. The burglars cut the lock on the front door before ransacking the shop.

“They escaped with branded watches, vintage motorcycle helmets, sunglasses, branded bags and handbags, shoes and T-shirts,” Fahmi said, adding that it was the first burglary reported so far during the movement control order period.

Shop owner Nieza Shah suspected the burglars had been to her store before as they knew where the expensive items were kept.

The 43-year-old said that the burglars had used the luggage bags in her shop to cart away the items.

“This is not a one-man job. I suspect more than two men broke in. They took hundreds of branded watches, sunglasses and helmets.

“I estimate the losses at RM100,000,” said Nieza.

It was the first time her shop had been broken into since it  was opened six years ago.

She said the burglars had cut the CCTV wires outside her store. The cameras inside the shop were not working. – March 29, 2020.