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Hunt for Pakistani man over police impersonation, robbery

Police are on the hunt for a male suspect, believed to be a member of a Pakistani robbery gang, to assist investigation into cases of police impersonation and robbery of foreign tourists around the capital recently.

Dang Wangi district police chief ACP Zainol Samah said the suspect was aged between 35 and 40 years while the gang's modus operandi was to use rental cars, impersonate as police and target foreign tourists as their victims.

"Three members of the gang, also aged between 35 and 40 years and Pakistani nationals, have been arrested in two separate raids on Jan 26 and last Monday and were charged in the Kuala Lumpur Magistrate's Court today," he told reporters after participating in the Healthy Lifestyle programme organised by the Dang Wangi police headquarters at the KLCC Espalanade in Kuala Lumpur.

Zainol said the first suspect was detained on Jan 26 at a car parking area in Bandar Baru Ampang following a police report lodged by a Saudi Arabian man, who claimed to be a robbery victim in Bukit Bintang, last November.

"During the incident, the victim was walking near the Pavilion shopping mall here before he was approached by the suspects who were travelling in a Proton Persona car.

"The suspects who were impersonating as police personnel, then showed their police ID cards to intimidate the victim into handing over cash and his mobile phone but the victim refused and took the car key," he said.

Zainol said interrogation of the first suspect led to the arrest of another two gang members at a roadblock around Chow Kit on Monday.

"The suspects were also found to have had fake Turkish passports in their possession and entered the country as tourists while one of the suspects did not have valid travel documents," he said adding the police believed that they had solved about 20 cases of robbery since November last year.

He said police also seized two Perodua Alza cars, three mobile phones and foreign currencies and the case was being investigated under Section 395/170 of the Penal Code.

- Bernama

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