Category: Impact

Malaysia’s top cop pledges to investigate officers involved in pangolin smuggling

MALAYSIA: Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador will investigate reports on police officers being involved in smuggling activities. “Anyone – including security officers – who works with smuggling syndicates would have action taken against them. “I even welcome whipping as punishment, ” he said, reiterating an earlier statement to introduce the punishment as […]

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Our report on police officers’ role in wildlife smugglings triggers corruption probe

R.AGE’s expose on the involvement of Malaysian police in the smuggling of endangered pangolins has triggered an investigation by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). “We have conducted undercover work and exposed corruption practices at our border (in the past), but we never looked into corruption in wildlife smuggling specifically,” said MACC deputy chief commissioner (operations) […]

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