Civil servants held for RM5mil bribe from smugglers

Facing the law: The MACC arrested eight individuals during a special operation on Monday.

PUTRAJAYA: Graft investigators have arrested four civil servants for accepting bribes from a tobacco, cigarette and liquor smuggling syndicate, whose activities for the past six years are believed to have caused tax revenue losses estimated at RM400mil.

The four suspects were believed to have received more than RM5mil from this syndicate, which they had been working with from 2018 until last year.