Five enforcement officers among nine arrested for alleged migrant smuggling in Sabah


KUALA LUMPUR: A total of nine individuals, including five enforcement officers, were arrested on suspicion of smuggling migrants into the country in an operation in Sabah last Thursday.

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), in a statement on Saturday (March 25), said the enforcement personnel, aged between 30 and 41 and included two women, were arrested between 2.30pm and 8.40pm in a joint operation, code-named "Op Lancar”, between the commission and the National Registration Department (JPN).

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