KUANTAN: A police sergeant was remanded for seven days starting today after he was suspected of soliciting a RM7,000 bribe to release some individuals caught for possession of ketum water.
The remand order was issued by magistrate Tengku Eliana Tuan Kamaruzaman against the 33-year-old man who works at the Narcotics Division of the Kuantan district police headquarters.
The sergeant was arrested after a statement was recorded from him at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office here yesterday to assist in the investigation under Section 17 (a) of the MACC Act 2009.
On Thursday, the sergeant was alleged to have asked for a bribe of RM7,000 from a man as an inducement to release his friends who were arrested on suspicion of being in possession of ketum water .
The individual is said to have handed over RM2,000 to him.