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IPOH: A marine policeman has been charged with 43 counts of graft at a Sessions Court here.
Kpl Zubairi Abdul Mutalib with the Kampung Acheh marine police base in Sitiawan, claimed trial to all the charges before judge N. Priscilla Hemamalini.
According to the charge sheet, Zubairi, 60, who is an off-shore patrol vessel unit chief, was said to have received a total of RM146,350 between May 2016 and July 2019 from the savings account of Lim Mee Lan as an inducement not to take action on the owner of several vessels, who had committed offences under the Fisheries Act.
He was charged under Section 17(a) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act.