Ali claimed he had been unlawfully detained under the Emergency Ordinance (EO) for three years in the 1990s over an allegation that he had been involved in a bank robbery.

Ali held a media conference outside the Shah Alam district police headquarters (IPD) after lodging a report in which he also named four other former police officers, including the former Johor police chief.

“I was detained using the EO, sent to Simpang Renggam, and spent months in solitary confinement where I was forced to admit committing a robbery which took place on June 16, 1995.

“If it’s true, why didn’t they use the CCTV (footage) to charge me in court? Why resort to the draconian law?” he said, calling it a “conspiracy”.

The bank robbery allegedly happened in Johor and Ali said that he was based at the Selangor contingent police headquarters at that time.

Ali said a special tribunal in a closed proceeding had cleared his name from the allegation in 2020.

He filed the report after sending the findings to the High Court in Shah Alam to be gazetted last week.