4 held in oil and gas project fraud probe
Sabah police say the suspects’ modus operandi is to offer the project and ask for advance money. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, June 13, 2023.
POLICE have arrested four people, including one with a “Datuk” title, on suspicion of being involved in fraudulent activities in connection with an oil and gas project in Kudat. Sabah police commissioner Jauteh Dikun said the suspects, aged bertween 40 and 61, were detained by a team from the Commercial Crime Investigation Department of Sabah contingent police headquarters and Kota Kinabalu district police headquarters at a hotel in Kota Kinabalu at about 4pm on June 5.
“Acting on a tip-off, police arrested four people who were said to be trying to offer a contract related to Kudat Oil and Gas Industrial project,” he said after the monthly assembly at the Sabah contingent police headquarters’ parade ground in Kota Kinabalu today.“Their modus operandi is to offer the project and ask for advance money. Thus far, no individual or contractor has been deceived,” he said.
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