Sabah cops nab four including ‘Datuk’ over oil and gas projects scam

Comm Jauteh speaking to the press after the Sabah police monthly assembly in Kota Kinabalu on Tuesday (June 13).

KOTA KINABALU: Four people including a “Datuk” have been hauled in by the police for trying to scam contractors by offering projects to construct a yet-to-be-built oil and gas industrial park in northern Sabah.

The suspects are aged between 40 and 61 years old and include a woman, and were arrested by Commercial Crime Investigation Department officers from the state and Kota Kinabalu police headquarters at a hotel here at 4pm on June 5.