THE newly-built San Pedro Calungsod Chapel in the South Road Properties (SRP) was looted.
Acting Cebu City Police Office chief, Senior Supt. Mariano Natu-el Jr. said robbers took away P100,000 cash and an undetermined amount of bank checks from a drawer in the living quarter of nuns and other workers serving the religious facility.
The robbery was discovered last Sunday morning, he said.
Police investigators found the doors leading to the living quarter destroyed.
Inspector William Alicaba, Theft and Robbery Section chief, said that they will invite the two guards, a nun, the chapel secretary and others who have access to the basement leading to the living quarter to shed light on the robbery.
Police investigators are not discounting possibility of inside job in the robbery.
The money came from proceeds of baptism and weddings held at the chapel last week and was supposed to be deposited to the bank yesterday.
The nun’s quarters was located at the basement of the chapel in which one of the rooms also serves as an office where a plastic drawer containing the money was placed.
“There was no forced entry in the first door, but the door knob in the second door was destroyed, and the drawer pried open,” Natuel said.
The chapel was donated by the family of Henry Sy, owner of the SM group of companies that own the country’s biggest chain of malls.
It was formally opened in Nov. 29, 2012, a day before the Calungsod National Thankgiving Mass was held in the templete in a vacant SRP nearby.
The Calungsod chapel is located inside SM Seaside Complex that is still under construction. /Chito O. Aragon, Correspondent