The police are conducting investigating the 30 employees of a warehouse in Quezon City after a firm that runs the cold storage facility discovered the loss of gallons of ice cream worth P4 million.
Superintendent Franklin Moises Mabanag, chief of the Quezon City Police District-Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit, said the gallons of ice cream were discovered missing after a recent inventory of products stored in the warehouse.
The warehouse on Aurora Boulevard near Hemady Street is operated by Trust Logistics Corp, which provides the cold storage of gallons of ice cream produced by food firm Nestle, Mabanag said.
From storage, another contractor provides trucking services to distribute the products to different stores in Metro Manila.
“The owner of the storage facility called me up last Dec. 11 requesting for an investigation on the incident,” Mabanag said in an interview. “After a recent inventory, they suspect that P4 million worth of ice cream were pilfered.”
Since then, a number of the employees had been interrogated and more are set to be questioned, Mabanag said. He added that they are not pinning the blame on anyone just yet.
“There is just a suspicion that there was collusion among the truck drivers, checkers, pickers and those in the production line,” he said.
It was still not clear during when the products may have been pilfered. “The company conducts a checking of the products monthly but I think the actual inventory happens quarterly,” Mabanag said.