PUTRAJAYA: The remand order against nine men, including two police district chiefs and four cops, detained as part of an investigation into a protection racket for vice dens has been extended by five days.
Magistrate Nik Isfahanie Tasnim Wan Ab Rahman granted the remand extension for the suspects to assist the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)’s probe into the graft case involving illegal gambling dens and massage parlours in Melaka.
The police chiefs of Melaka Tengah and Jasin districts and four other officers – two inspectors and two assistant superintendents of police (ASPs) – had been under remand for six days since last Wednesday.
The six, aged between 31 and 54, were detained on suspicion of accepting bribes in exchange for providing protection to the illegal centres.
The three other remanded men are civilians, one of whom had allegedly acted as the middleman who helped the officers collect bribes from operators of the gambling centres and massage parlours.
They were arrested in simultaneous raids by the MACC between 9.30am on Tuesday and 4.05am the next day.