Hitmen cops to face murder charges

SEREMBAN: A police assistant superintendent (ASP) and four other rank-and-file personnel, who were arrested early last month over links to a notorious underworld gang, are expected to be charged tomorrow for the murder of five people.
Sources said the five will be taken to the Seremban court complex in the morning to face multiple murder charges under Section 302 of the Penal Code.
The policemen, based in Negri Sembilan and Pahang, were arrested on April 6 following the arrest of 35 Geng 36 members in an intensive operation called "Ops Khas Hoben".
They were also allegedly involved in drug trafficking activities run by the gang.
The operation was carried out by state and federal police to weed out secret society elements in the country and black sheep in the police force.
The suspects were detained for 28 days under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma).
Four civilians, all said to be members of the gang, who were arrested in connection with the case will also face the same charges over the killings.
Upon interrogation, the suspects led investigators to two locations between April 11 and 13 – an abandoned Hindu temple in Batu 8, Jalan Sungai Gadut, and a site in Bukit Galena on Jalan Seremban-Mantin near the Seremban-Kajang Expressway – where the skeletal remains of five people were exhumed from shallow graves.
Police said the suspected murders are believed to have taken place in 2014 and 2015 and members of Geng 36 and the five were allegedly involved.
The killings are believed to be related to drug deals gone awry.