An Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) and an Assistant Superintendent (ASP) arrested last Thursday with over RM1 million cash on them.
Five vehicles worth RM3 million and said to be owned by a high-level anti-vice police officer are the latest belongings to be impounded by graft-busters investigating corruption within the police force.
A source within the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) said the money trail started at a car workshop in Sunway, Petaling Jaya, and ended at the police training centre (Pulapol) in Jalan Semarak, Kuala Lumpur.
The haul consisted of a Ferrari, a Mercedes Benz, a Mini Cooper, a BMW sedan and a BMW motorcycle.
“These vehicles belonged to the ACP who was attached to STAGG in Bukit Aman, and we estimate the seized vehicles to be around RM3 million,” the source told the Malay Mail on condition of anonymity.
STAGG refers to the Special Task Force for Anti-Vice, Gambling and Gangsterism, a high-level group at the federal police headquarters in Bukit Aman. An Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) and an Assistant Superintendent (ASP) were arrested last Thursday with over RM1 million cash on them.
The duo was arrested during an afternoon MACC sting at the car workshop where they were caught in possession of RM341,000 in cash.
The two policemen then led the graft investigators to a condominium which they were using as a safe house and where another cash pile estimated to total between RM400,000 and RM700,000 were seized.
But that wasn’t the end of the haul. Next, the policemen led investigators to Pulapol in the city centre where more than RM225,000 in hard cash bills were found in both the offices of the ACP and the ASP.
“Investigators are still probing the case and have not ruled out the possibility of more cash and properties being seized.
“As of now, MACC officers are trying to establish the source of the cash and its original purpose before being stashed away in huge amounts,” the source said. – Malay Mail