S'wak TV station top exec among five detained to help money-laundering, CBT probe, says IGP

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A 61-year-old top executive of a television station in Sarawak is among five individuals detained in connection with a money laundering and criminal breach of trust investigation.  The suspects were detained in a special operation conducted by the Inspector-General of Police secretariat’s Anti-Money Laundering (Amla) division in a special operation codenamed "Ops Ragada" on Friday (Jan 10).  Read more at https://shorturl.at/icEtz  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A 61-year-old chief executive officer of a television station in Sarawak are among five

00:07individuals detained in connection with a money-laundering and criminal breach of trust

00:12investigation.

00:14The suspects were detained in a special operation conducted by the Inspector General of Police

00:19Secretariat's Anti-Money-Laundering Division in a special operation codenamed Ops Ragada

00:26on Friday.

00:27IGP Tan Sri Razaruddin Hussain said the division officers detained four men and a woman aged

00:33between 25 and 61 years old in connection with the ongoing investigation.

00:38They were detained for investigation under Section 4, Subsection 1 of the Anti-Money-Laundering,

00:44Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act, 2001.

00:51Police investigation discovered suspicious financial transactions between 2017 and last

00:57year and the suspects were believed to be involved in money laundering, criminal breach

01:02of trust as well as illegally awarding tenders for projects.

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