Crackdown on protection racket

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PUTRAJAYA: A syndicate offering protection to errant lorry drivers has been smashed with the arrest of its members, most of them Road Transport Department (JPJ) officers.

However, the latest case had syndicate members who operated in Kedah, Perlis, Perak and Melaka.

“We are still investigating the case and we are not ruling out the possibility of making more arrests in the coming days, ” he said yesterday. “Members of the syndicate are believed to have accepted between RM150 and RM3,000 a month. It is estimated that the syndicate The payments were also for tip-offs, which the companies and drivers received to alert them about JPJ operations.

In Perak, three of the eight JPJ officers arrested during Ops Sukat were remanded for six days, along with two members of the public who acted as proxies.

 

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