Sabah cross-border kidnappings: Are the frontliners on the take?


Troubled water: The fish farm where one of the kidnappings took place in Kg Air Sapang in Kunak.

LAHAD DATU: The seemingly endless cross-border kidnappings in Sabah’s east coast have raised the spectre of corruption among law enforcement agencies.

There is a growing concern among the elite of Sabah’s security forces that cross-border criminals could have bribed some of the frontliners to look the other way.

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