Either his Twitter account was hacked, or Inspector General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar is moonlighting as a salesman during the weekends.
Bernama reports that the IGP’s Twitter account, @kbab51, is believed to have been hacked.
Deputy inspector-general of police Noor Rashid Ibrahim told the news agency that the police are aware of the incident and they are looking into it.
“I understand it was hacked using an overseas server. It is still under investigation,” he was quoted by Bernama as saying.
On Sunday morning, several tweets promoting Rayban sunglasses at ‘a promotional price of USD24.99’ were reportedly sent out from his Twitter account without his consent.
