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PUTRAJAYA: Graft investigators have arrested four civil servants for allegedly accepting RM5mil in bribes from a syndicate smuggling cigarettes, tobacco and liquor into the country.
It is learnt that the suspects, who are in their 40s and 50s, were arrested on Monday at various locations in the Klang Valley. Sources said that eight people, including the four suspects, were arrested on suspicion of working with the syndicate between 2018 and last year. “Investigators also believe that bribe money of more than RM8mil had been paid to several individuals, including the four civil servants, to enable the goods to be smuggled in,” said a source with knowledge of the investigation.
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