2 more JPJ officers, ex-SPAD staff member remanded as MACC net widens

Close to 50 Penang JPJ enforcement personnel have been questioned by MACC in connection with an alleged lorry driver protection racket.

The two Penang JPJ enforcement officers and a former SPAD staff who were remanded for seven days today.

They had been detained to facilitate investigations by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission into a protection racket involving lorry drivers who flouted traffic laws in the state.The three men, aged between 32 and 48, are being investigated under Section 17 of the MACC Act 2009.

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