Datuks, cops held in gang bust
> Police believe at least 40 serious crime cases solved
SHAH ALAM: A total of 82 suspected members of two notorious underworld gangs – Gang 08 and Gang 18 – that were behind a string of serious crimes, including murder, were nabbed by police in intensified operations since last week.
A “datuk seri” and a “datuk” were among 63 suspects nabbed by Selangor police in operations codenamed Ops Spider and Ops Api Reload under Ops Cantas Khas.
Also arrested were three police personnel – an assistant superintendant, a sergeantmajor and a constable, suspected to be the gangs’ informants.
The trio were personnel attached to Bukit Aman, Brickfields and Rawang police.
Police believe at least 40 cases of serious crimes, including five murder cases since 2015 in Selangor, are considered solved with the suspects’ arrest.
Selangor police chief Commissioner Datuk Mazlan Mansor said yesterday both gangs were involved in murders, abductions, robbery, causing grevious hurt, firearm use and drug trafficking.
Speaking at a press conference at the Selangor police headquarters in Shah Alam, he said the operations that were launched three months ago entailed surveillance and intelligence gathering before police moved in from March 29 until yesterday to execute the arrests in Pahang, Perak, Kelantan, Malacca, Johor, the KL International Airport and here.
He said the suspects, aged between 23 and 60, were held under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma).
The suspects are in custody under a 28day remand order.
Mazlan said police also seized four-wheel drive vehicles, high-powered motorcycles, a pistol, machetes, gold jewellery and cash in the operation.
In KUALA LUMPUR, city police have detained 19 people who are suspected to be members of the notorious 08 Gang.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Commissioner Datuk Seri Mazlan Lazim said the suspects were detained in Johor, Pahang, Selangor and in the city during an operation code named “Ops Capital KL 1/2018”.