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KUALA LUMPUR: Several high-ranking police officers attached to the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters and the district police headquarters have been arrested by anti-bribery agents.
So far, sources said that two OCPD and four CID branch officers have been detained by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), in connection with protecting illegal gambling activities, which is run by a local cartel.
“At least seven senior officers have been arrested in connection with illegal online gambling and money laundering.
“The process to pick up others to assist in the investigations is still ongoing,” the sources said.
The police have also called several senior CID officials to conduct investigations and record their statements.
The MACC is known to have obtained the names of police personnel and officers through initial investigations into a man, believed to be the mastermind of the union, and his right-hand man, who is a Datuk.
Both men were arrested last Saturday and Sunday, following investigations into some celebrities and popular personalities, who are suspected of conducting business using funds obtained from illegal online gambling and scams in Macau.
It was previously reported that RM85mil had been seized from a Macau scam and illegal gambling syndicate, but the bribery busters are now expanding the network to catch more people, including police officers.
The MACC, which has captured 20 people (including eight policemen and one Chinese national) so far, will make more arrests in the coming days.
Sources said that RM85mil is the tip of the iceberg, and MACC hopes to confiscate more of the illegally obtained profits that will be put into government coffers.
MACC Chief Commissioner Datuk Seri Azam Baki had said that the bribery busters have crippled the union’s operations by freezing its accounts, 730 of them with RM80 thousand inside these accounts, as well as RM5 thousand in cash.
MACC investigators also seized 23 luxury cars from various brands – Bentley, Rolls Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari and Porsche – believed to have been purchased from returns from illegal activities carried out by the individuals.
It is understood that celebrities and famous personalities were among the victims of the scam, and Azam said that some may have known.
or unknowingly accepted money from this union for commercial purposes.
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