MACC personnel escorting the police inspector from the court yesterday.
The three other police personnel being led away after their court appearance yesterday.
KOTA KINABALU: Four police officers from Lahad Datu, including an inspector, were detained by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on suspicion of receiving RM20,000 bribe from an illegal moneylender (Ah Long) on Monday.
MACC Sabah director Datuk Sazali Salbi said the inspector, sergeant, corporal and lance corporal, aged between 29 and 34, were detained by MACC after they received the bribe from the complainant.
“The complainant had lodged a report with the MACC claiming that the suspects had asked for RM20,000 as inducement so that no police action would be taken against him following a police raid in Lahad Datu on August 16.
“The bribe they asked for was also allegedly a ‘monthly protection fee’ for the complainant,” he said yesterday.
According to Sazali, the complainant had given RM18,000 to the suspects on the same day and promised to pass on the balance at a later date.
“Acting on the report, MACC personnel immediately set up an ambush and arrested the inspector as the complainant was handing over the RM2,000 to him on August 21,” he said.
Following the arrest of the inspector, three other police personnel were also detained by the MACC.
All the suspects were remanded for seven days from yesterday to facilitate investigation under Section 17 (a) of the MACC Act 2009.
Meanwhile, eight assistant medical officers will be charged here today for allegedly filing false overtime claims between January 2016 and May 2016 amounting to RM126,757.24.
Sazali said the seven men and a woman, aged between 26 and 38, and attached to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, will be charged under Section 18 of the MACC Act 2009, while two of the accused will also be charged under Section 28 (1) (c) of the same Act.