Kuala Muda deputy police chief Supt Saifi Abd Hamid said the break-in was discovered about 10 am today by a worker who then informed the management.

“A company executive, aged 61, then went to the location and found the office ransacked.

“He also found drill marks at one of the iron safes which contained RM250,000,” he said in a statement here today.

He said police believed the intruder/intruders had entered the office through a window as police found a rope, believed to have been used for the purpose.

“The place is monitored by closed-circuit television cameras, but the cable to the CCTV alarm had been cut and the CCTV taken away,” he said.

Saifi said there was a security guard at the office, but he claimed to have not heard or seen anything suspicious.

Police found a cutter and a pair of gloves at the scene, he added.