State police chief Mohamad Mat Yusop said a police report was filed against Edisi Siasat yesterday for making the allegation.

The Edisi Siasat tweet was accompanied by a copy of a police report filed against the Seremban district police on May 14, 2020, alleging the theft of RM595,215 out of RM1.14 million confiscated in the raid.

In the police report, a 19-year-old man claimed the document prepared by the police on the confiscated cash only mentioned RM547,153, which he claimed was short of RM595,215 from the total that he counted earlier together with his supervisor and the police.

The man also alleged that he was assaulted and forced by policemen from the district police station to alter his statement made on May 7, 2020, in which he had said the money was from the sale of face masks.

He claimed police forced him to alter the statement by saying that the money seized was from the proceeds of the sale of smuggled cigarettes.

Mat denied the claims made by the complainant in the police report and said the case had been investigated by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission. He did not state the result of the probe.

He also referred FMT to a news report by Sinar Harian, dated May 8, 2020, which stated that Seremban police had foiled a cigarette smuggling syndicate in a raid at a house in Taman Bukit Kepayang.

The news report said police had confiscated RM1.7 million worth of smuggled cigarettes and RM547,153 in cash, and arrested 11 men in the raid.