This is the audacious moment a brazen thief steals a handbag from the woman despite being surrounded by crowded customers.<br /><br />The light-fingered shopped performed the daring grab-and-go without the handbag owner noticing it in the jewellery shop in Mid Valley Megamall in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on August 18.<br /><br />CCTV shows how the woman was busy trying on the jewellery while her bag was sitting on the chair behind her.<br /><br />A moment later, a middle-aged man sidled up to her while covering his right arm with a black jacket.<br /><br />The man glanced at the woman's handbag several times and looked around to ensure there will not be any witness.<br /><br />Then he laid his jacket covered hand on the handbag, grabbed it and walked away without the woman or any other customer around aware.<br /><br />Shopping mall operators said the video had been handed to police and they appealed for help tracing the alleged thief.<br /><br />They said: ''Please be careful with your belongings when you're distracted in shops. The police are looking for this man, so do not allow him to do it again.''
