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Arrest of Ronnie Liu is 'pelik' to say the least

by Stephen Ng


I find the arrest of Sungai Pelek state assemblyperson Ronnie Liu very "pelik" (strange), especially when the statement he made had hardly anything to do with sedition or possibly causing people to hate the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

I urge Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador to restore public confidence in the police force and ensure that such actions are not taken without due consideration to public scrutiny of actions undertaken by its senior officers.

In fact, the Criminal Investigation Department chief, Huzir Mohamed should focus on more serious crimes and put efforts to address the issue of Macau scams, which are becoming more rampant and affecting unsuspecting ordinary citizens.

A friend told me that one of his friends had lost a big sum of money to such a scam, but nothing could be done despite the man intimidating the poor victim.

Just less than 48 hours ago, I received another such phone call claiming that I had over RM10,000 in unpaid taxes. In a number of other incidents, it was over an alleged accident which killed a boy somewhere in Kedah in a hit-and-run accident, and a warrant of arrest had been issued against me. Another phone call came from a so-called officer of the Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission, saying that I was being investigated under the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA). These are the kind of scams that I would like the Criminal Investigation Department and the Royal Malaysian Police to focus its attention on.

The news of the arrest of a man who was allegedly involved in the Macau scam and online gambling syndicates is laudable; however, I am sure there are many others who are involved in the scam here locally.

Many of us have probably heard of friends being scammed from time to time. It is time for Huzir and his team to put more efforts to go after the entire syndicate, instead of wasting police man-hours on calling former deputy prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim recently and Liu yesterday for questioning.

Liu's post reads like any newspaper headline, "Now in Bangkok. They are saying No to the King". Anyone who reads this Facebook post would understand what Liu meant when he merely said that, in Bangkok, the people of Thailand are expressing their unhappiness with their king.

Going by a news report, even Germany's Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas said that his country "would always oppose having guests in our country who run their state affairs from here".

This has nothing to do with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, who is the constitutional monarch of Malaysia, and His Majesty was in the thick of things when Anwar went to see him, and later when Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yasin wanted to enforce an emergency rule.

I hope our police force knows that they are not serving the Thai king, but the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and their roles to fight crime should not be confused with civilian or political affairs in the country.

Frankly, I do not see how and why Liu should be arrested or even questioned at all over a simple statement that he made. If he could be arrested, all newspapers that carry similar titles should be investigated as well.

Instead, it is only fair that whoever lodged the police report should now be hauled up for further investigation, as we would like to know if the complainant had lodged a false police report against a fellow citizen and a member of the Selangor State Assembly.

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