Two senior CCID cops claim trial to RM1.25mil corruption charge

Chin (left) and Suhairon being led into the Sessions Court on Tuesday (May 28). - Photo courtesy of Sinar Harian

KUALA LUMPUR: Two senior police officers from Bukit Aman's Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) have pleaded not guilty to charges involving graft of RM1.25mil at the Sessions Court on Tuesday (May 28).

The officers, Asst Comm Chin Khiam Kong, 54, the senior assistant director of CCID's Forensic Accounting Investigations unit, and Deputy Supt Suhairon Abdullah, 42, the head of the Cryptocurrency Crime Investigation section, are accused of accepting bribes to close an investigation involving a businessman linked to cryptocurrency used to purchase firearms by an Israeli citizen.