KLANG, MALAYSIA: Police are investigating whether the large sum of money seized from four men, detained in connection with the $S1.5mil (RM3.5mil) KL International Airport (KLIA) heist, came from the robbery.

Selangor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said police will liase with Bank Negara to check the "status" of the RM779,622.

"If the money is "illegal" then we will confiscate it," he said yesterday.

On April 9, four gunmen opened fire at two moneychangers and their bodyguards before escaping with RM3.5mil.

Last Friday, police arrested four men in Johor and seized weapons, cars and RM779,622 in cash.

On a report that one of those wounded in the incident is a policeman, DCP Khalid said the police were investigating the possibility that the policeman could have worked for the moneychanger as an armed escort.

DCP Khalid said action would be taken against the policeman if he was found to have committed breach of discipline.

"His services can be terminated if evidence shows that he is in the wrong," he said.

"The pistol of the policeman from Putrajaya had yet to be found,'' he told a press conference after visiting Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah yesterday in conjunction with the police's 201st anniversary celebration.

DCP Khalid said it was a tradition to visit hospitals as part of the police day celebration.

Khalid, accompanied by his wife Datin Imran Ibrahim, department heads from the Selangor police contingent and members of the Police Family Association (Perkap), visited the children's ward and their colleagues in the hospital.

The visit turned into an "emergency drama" for about five minutes when an assistant cameraman from Bernama TV collapsed at the children's ward on the seventh floor.

Several hospital staff, nurses and doctors who were entertaining the police officers ran to his aid and rushed him to the emergency room on the ground floor.

His condition was reported to be stable and he was discharged from the hospital at 2pm.