Egyptian loses BMW, P10-M cash, valuables to robbers

MANILA, Philippines - Three armed men barged into the house of an Egyptian dentist in Cainta, Rizal on Wednesday and took his BMW car and vault containing an estimated P10 million in cash and valuables.

Senior Superintendent Rolando Anduyan, Rizal police director, said they were eyeing an inside job in the robbery in the house of Ayman Abdel Naby, 44, as the suspects knew where he kept the vault.

Naby and his Filipina wife, Alicia, 48, were away when the robbers entered their house at Greenwoods Subdivision in Barangay San Andres on Wednesday morning.

A househelp, Reynaldo Ascares, 49, said he was in the backyard when he heard repeated rings of the doorbell.

When he opened the door, Ascares said the three robbers, armed with handguns, rushed in and dragged him at the back of the house where his two companions, Haidee Macause, 38, and Pablo Abvaco, 50, were staying.

The robbers tied up the three before ransacking the house, taking the vault containing $35,000 in cash, two Rolex watches worth P1 million, a clutch bag containing $3,000, three Egyptian and two Philippine passports, and three cell phones.

The robbers loaded the vault onto Naby’s silver BMW X6 (with license plate NQY 753) and escaped.

Witnesses said the robbers were escorted out of the subdivision by a Mitsubishi Adventure (NXU 443) and a Toyota car.