Foreigner arrested for making false police report 28 Feb 2021 / 13:40 H.
KUALA LUMPUR: An Uzbekistan national who claimed he lost RM8,000 to police extortionists was arrested on Saturday after he was found to have lodged a false police report.
Brickfields police chief ACP Anuar Omar said today that the 37-year-old foreigner had made the allegations in a police report on Thursday.
He said the man who works as a craftsman in Shah Alam claimed that the cash was taken from him by police patrolmen at a road shoulder at Jalan Solaris 1, Solaris Mont Kiara here.
Anuar said an investigation was carried out and when the foreigner’s statements were found to be inconsistent, police conducted a raid at a premises on Jalan Selangor, off Jalan Travers on Saturday where several bank cards, banking slips and cellphones were seized.