GEORGE TOWN – Four individuals, including an assistant superintendent of police, have been remanded for allegedly receiving RM500,000 from a drug trafficking syndicate in Penang.
The syndicate allegedly paid for information and enforcement protection over the years.
A source said two policemen were handed over by the force to the state Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission office, with the other two suspects detained by graft-busters at noon yesterday.
The four received a total of RM500,000 in bribes from the syndicate, said the source.
It is understood that the cops involved – one of them a lance corporal – are from the Penang police headquarters and Northeast district police headquarters’ narcotics and crime division.
The others remanded are a Penang Island City Council employee and a civilian.
The civilian is being held for four days, and the rest, two days each.
The remand order was issued by George Town magistrates’ court assistant registrar Muhammad Azam Md Eusoff.
They suspects were taken to court from the MACC office here at 10.30am today. – The Vibes, February 26, 2021
