Cops probing if ‘lockup scam’ was inside job


MELAKA: Police here are investigating whether it was an inside job in the case where a woman was cheated of RM9,000 in a bid to secure her husband’s release from a police lockup.

Melaka Commercial Crime chief Supt E. Sundra Rajan said the victim lodged a report at the Pulau Sebang police station in Alor Gajah on Sunday after she was cheated by a so-called police officer who had promised to release her husband if she made the payment.

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