Sabah drug cartel: Datuk, two cops among 11 charged with being members of 'Geng Upik'

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A Datuk, who is patron of a non-governmental organisation and a franchise business owner as well as two policemen were among 11 people charged for involvement with a criminal organisation linked to the largest drug cartel in Sabah.  Read more at http://tinyurl.com/57vyufk2  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 A Datuk and two policemen were among 11 people charged in the Kota Kinabalu Sessions Court

00:08 on Monday for their involvement with a criminal organisation linked to Sabah's largest drug

00:14 cartel.

00:15 41-year-old Datuk Maslan Sani, former Tawau CID officer, Inspector Rahman Burin, General

00:22 Operations Force cop, Sergeant Jaisalfian Jaineh alias Zaini, and nine others were charged

00:29 under Section 130V(1) of the Penal Code.

00:33 All were accused of being members of the organised crime group known as Geng Upik at different

00:38 times between early 2015 till December 24 last year.

00:43 They faced between 5 to 20 years imprisonment upon conviction.

00:49 No plea was recorded from each accused before Sessions Court Judge Noor Hafizah Mohamed

00:55 Salim, who set March 1 for the case to be mentioned and to be transferred to the High

01:00 Court.

01:01 All accused were not given bail.

01:03 It was earlier reported that the Bukit Aman Narcotics Department and the Eastern Sabah

01:09 Security Command had smashed Sabah's biggest drug ring with the arrests of its kingpin

01:14 in a series of raids across the state on Christmas Day.

01:19 Deputy IGP Datuk Seri Ayob Khan Maideen Pichai said over RM7 million in assets were seized

01:26 from the syndicate kingpin who is reported to be patron of NGO Pakat Sabah Malaysia and

01:32 a franchise business owner.

01:33 The court ruled that the accused were not guilty of any of the crimes.

01:34 The court ruled that the accused were not guilty of any of the crimes.

01:35 The court ruled that the accused were not guilty of any of the crimes.

01:40 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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