00:00Ten individuals, including five senior armed forces officers, have been remanded over suspected
00:08involvement in a smuggling syndicate operating in the country's southern region. The others
00:14remanded are two online portal journalists, a company manager, an administrative assistant at
00:20the Malaysian Medical Association and a foreign woman. Four male suspects are remanded
00:26until August 20, two men and a woman until August 18, and two men along with an Indonesian woman
00:33until August 15. The remand orders were issued by Magistrate Irza Zulaika Rohanuddin after the
00:40Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, MACC, filed the application at a Putrajaya magistrate's court
00:46on Thursday. Sources said the suspects, aged 30 to 55, were arrested in the Klang Valley during
00:53OPSOHOR, a joint MACC police operation, a day earlier. The senior military intelligence officers
01:01are believed to have leaked operational details to the syndicate to help them evade enforcement.
01:07The smuggled goods, including drugs, cigarettes and other items from neighbouring countries,
01:12were valued at about 5 million ringgit monthly. Investigations over the past year suggest the
01:18syndicate paid each officer between 30,000 and 50,000 ringgit per operation, with their involvement
01:25described as extensive and complex. During Wednesday's raids, MACC also seized over 63,000
01:32ringgit in cash, several packets of suspected drugs, weighing and measuring equipment, alcohol
01:39and a replica firearm. MACC Senior Director of Intelligence Datuk Saiful Ezral Arefin confirmed
01:47the arrests, adding that the case is being investigated for corruption and money laundering.
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