Subang Jaya police chief Wan Azlan Wan Mamat said the MBSJ officer had filed a report on the incident.
According to him, the officer said the team inspecting the massage parlour was instructed to record videos and take photos as evidence of the business’s operations and to verify compliance with licensing requirements.
“A preliminary investigation found that the (massage parlour) was operating without a valid licence from MBSJ, in violation of the council’s 2013 by-laws,” he said in a statement.
Wan Azlan said the officer also mentioned that the team was provoked by a woman who refused to cooperate when asked for her identity card and objected to the recording by the MBSJ officers.
He said the officer maintained that the team complied with SOPs when they carried out the inspection.
Last Thursday, the rapper known as Zamaera detailed the incident in a series of posts on X, accusing the officers of entering the massage parlour and recording a video of her while she was covered only in a towel.
Zamaera said she was in a room at the Chiang Thai massage parlour when several men, believed to be MBSJ enforcement officers, entered the premises.
She claimed that when she confronted an officer filming her, he replied that it was part of MBSJ’s SOPs.
According to her, the officer later denied filming her and said no video evidence existed even though she saw him carry out the recording.
It is understood that she also lodged a police report on the incident.
Wan Azlan said police will conduct a thorough investigation based on the two reports under Sections 186 and 509 of the Penal Code as well as under Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.
Section 186 of the Penal Code relates to obstructing public servants in discharge of their duties, while Section 509 of the same code relates to an offence of outraging the modesty of a person.
Section 233 of the CMA criminalises online content that is “obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive in character with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person”.