Malaysia’s Selangor police have arrested 12 officers after a complaint alleged a midnight raid that ended with about 200,000 ringgit ($51,000) transferred in cryptocurrency, South China Morning Post reported.
According to the report, the alleged victims are eight Chinese nationals, described by local media as aged 25 to 45. They said police stormed a bungalow in the Kajang district outside Kuala Lumpur, confiscated phones and laptops, and coerced one person to move digital assets to a specified crypto account. The arrests were announced days after Malaysia’s king publicly warned that corruption in the civil service and police was on his radar.
Selangor police chief Shazeli Kahar said the 12 officers were detained to assist an investigation and that the case is being treated as a gang robbery involving a foreign national’s cryptocurrency, without offering further detail. The next milestone for stakeholders is any official disclosure on charges, recovered assets, or disciplinary outcomes.
Source: South China Morning Post.
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