Datuk nabbed over scam


On alert: Comm Jauteh (centre) speaking to the press after the Sabah police monthly assembly in Kota Kinabalu.

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

Aged between 40 and 61, the suspects, who included a woman, 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.

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