Money amounting to P80,000 was reportedly stolen from a vault at the regional offices of the Land Transportation Office. One of the cashiers made the discovery and reported the loss to the police.
But ostensibly after checking and cross-checking, the head of office announced that the money reported as having been stolen did not belong to the LTO. In other words, the government did not lose anything.
So, if what was stolen from the vault was not LTO or government money, then it must have belonged to someone in a private capacity, meaning it was the personal money of someone in the office.
Most probably, the money belonged to the cashier since it was taken from her vault and she apparently had knowledge about it, having reported its loss to the police. So if the money belonged to the cashier, how come she had that much money?
Okay, there are a lot of reasons why the cashier has a lot of personal money. Maybe she is rich. Maybe she is in business and the money represented something like sales. Or maybe she is about to invest it and plow it back into business. Our guess is as good as yours.
But the one question that defies a ready answer, or guess if you will, is why personal money was being kept in a government vault inside a government office during official time. What was that money doing there?
Several years ago, there was that story about an ordinary casual employee at the same office who seemed to be engaged in something and doing quite well in it that he actually had to hire outside help just to be able to keep up with whatever it was that busied him.
That was quite a while ago, but if so much personal money can accumulate in the vault of a government office, the suspicion cannot be helped that something has to be going on there, something that can generate a lot of money, not for government but for private entities.