Acting Kelantan police chief Zaki Harun said the three, aged between 20 and 30, were arrested last Saturday following a report from a woman.

He said the three had been remanded for four days from Saturday to facilitate investigations.

“Based on the report, the complainant, a 68-year-old woman claimed that at 4.30pm last Tuesday, the three policemen came to her house to arrest her son in relation to a drug offence.

“She claimed they had asked for the key to search a wooden cupboard in her room and had seized her cash, amounting to RM45,000, which was from the sale of land and coconut milk,” he told a press conference here today.

Zaki said the woman then went to the Kuala Krai district police headquarters but was told that only RM4,500 was seized.

Further investigations are being carried out under Section 380 of the Penal Code, for theft in a building, he added.