Police from a Kuala Lumpur station are being praised for their unwavering stance against a bribe from suspected drug traffickers early Monday morning.
Three officers were patrolling the Bandar Tun Razak area of Kuala Lumpur, when a stopped vehicle aroused their suspicions circa 4am. Identifying themselves as police, they asked the two men and a woman inside for their identity cards, to which the occupants responded by trying to hand over RM3,600 (US$860) in cash, with a further RM1,400 (US$335) from a friend who would come to drop off more.
The trio made it clear that the attempted bribe was to thwart police attempts to open the car’s bonnet.
However, one of the officers is reported to have told them that bribing an official was a crime. After 30 minutes, the trio’s friend appeared with more cash in hand. Instead of accepting the cash, police decided to have a look under the hood and found sundry narcotics.
Among the haul was 1,700 grams of heroin, 700 pills, a weighing machine, scissors, and an unidentified bottle with liquid. A raid on one of the suspect’s homes in the Cheras neighborhood of Kuala Lumpur turned up 100 grams of what authorities believe to be an illicit power, and 150 more pills. In total, RM20,000 (US$5,000) in drugs was seized.
Police arrested the three, and their bribery accomplice who were aged between 21 years old and 24 years old.
Unfortunately, the group now faces not only the wrath of a criminal investigation, but also the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission for their bribery offense.
