Malaysia Crime Watch

20 August 2007
Johor Baru

Retiree Goo Tiam Chye was abducted by four men when he left his house in Taman Skudai Baru at 6:15am yesterday. The 69-year-old man was forced into the suspects’ car and had to give them the house keys. They hit him for refusing to give the keys but the victim gave them up later.

Goo’s son, Sin Kok, is the Gelang Patah MCA public complaints bureau deputy chief.

The suspects drove back to the house and three of them entered the house and tied up Goo’s 60-year-old wife, and his two children, both in their 20s. They managed to rob RM3,000 worth of cash, jewellery and mobile phones. When two of the suspects tried to drive a Proton Perdana out of the house, a police patrol car came onto the scene.

Two suspects in the stolen Proton Perdana and the two others who were with Goo in the first car, sped off in different directions. Police fired warning shots at the Proton Perdana, which stalled a few minutes later when the vehicle security system disabled it.

Police have arrested a man in his 30s.

Goo suffered leg injuries and has been warded for observation.

The Star Online – Robbed, taken on terror ride
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/8/20/nation/18643577&sec=nation>

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20 August 2007
Kuala Lumpur

A 44-year-old former Internal Revenue Board (IRB) officer and two others, aged 30 and 45 years, were arrested last Thursday at 11:30am for involvement in a stamp duty scam that has swindled hundreds of millions of ringgit.

The officer was the mastermind behind a syndicate that started since 2004, who misused his knowledge and position to bypass the authorised board stamp duty franking office and creating his own stamp duty franking service. The fake service was used by unsuspecting businesses, especially law firms and financial institutions.

The Federal Commercial Crimes Investigations Department (CCID) has seized documents with the alleged forged stamp duty franking. CCID officers also seized forged rubber stamps and other paraphernalia. Some of the business agreements were made with law firms and financial institutions valued at hundreds of millions of ringgit.

CCID director Comm Datuk Ramli Yusuff said that his officers are working with the IRB to seek out the remaining members of the syndicate and all fraudulent documents.

The Star Online – Ex-IRB officer behind tax fraud held
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/8/20/nation/18637501&sec=nation>

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18 August 2007
Kuala Lumpur

A 42-year-old Singaporean, who arrived at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport from Paris yesterday, was arrested yesterday for possessing about 57,588 Ecstasy pills estimated to be worth RM500,000.

The largest seizure by the police this year, Federal Narcotics Department chief Datuk Bakri Zinin believes that they have crippled an international drug syndicate by the arrest of the man at 7:20am that day, who is believed to be a courier for the syndicate.

Acting on a tip-off, police stopped the man just outside of the airport and found the pills wrapped with carbon paper and placed inside potato chip wrappings. He had spent a week in Paris.

Authorities are checking with the Singaporean counterparts to track the syndicate, which is believed to be using Singaporeans to courier drugs from Europe to this region of the world.

The Star Online – Police seize RM500,000 worth of Ecstasy pills
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/8/18/nation/20070818114158&sec=nation>

New Straits Times – Man held, 57,600 Ecstasy pills seized
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Saturday/National/20070818083417/Article/index_html>

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