Tawau Immigration officer among trio nabbed over RM12,000 bribe


KOTA KINABALU: An Immigration officer and two middlemen were arrested by anti-graft investigators in connection with a RM12,000 bribe to allow an undocumented Indonesian national to fly from Tawau to Kuala Lumpur.

It was learned that the police and Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers arrested the trio at about 6pm at the Sabah MACC office on Thursday (July 13).

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