KUALA LUMPUR: The Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) has arrested a police superintendent for allegedly amassing RM9mil in cash and property while still in service.
The officer, in his late 40s and once in charge of the anti-vice and gamming division of a state, is expected to be charged today.
One of the charges is under the Anti-Money Laundering Act.
It is learnt that ACA officers picked up the officer at his house in Shah Alam yesterday morning after he was discharged from hospital.
ACA director-general Datuk Ahmad Said Hamdan confirmed the arrest but declined to elaborate as investigations were still in progress.
Sources said the officer had been on the police and ACA radar for the past two years and was directed to declare all his assets early this year.
He is said to have omitted listing down quite a number of his assets. Among the assets he is said to have amassed are several houses, shoplots and a substantial amount of shares in firms.
The sources said the officer was removed from state post and transferred to Bukit Aman recently and assigned to a desk job pending the investigations.
The arrest of the officer is said to be the beginning of more as police and ACA step up their fight against corrupt practices.
It has been reported that several other senior police officers were under investigation for various corrupt practices and would be called in soon to assist in investigations.
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