Syndicate posing as MACC, Home Ministry officers to get people off the hook, smashed


The suspects with some of the items seized from them at the Sabah MACC office in Kota Kinabalu.

KOTA KINABALU: A syndicate where fraudsters pose as senior government officers claiming they can "settle" cases under investigation by authorities has been busted by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.

Sources said seven suspects, six men and a woman, posed as MACC and Home Ministry officials and cheated victims of hundreds of thousands of ringgit.

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Syndicate , Bribery , MACC , Home Ministry

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