Kota Kinabalu: Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers arrested three assistant enforcement officers for allegedly asking and receiving a bribe from a trader in Beaufort two weeks ago.The suspects aged between 35 and 38 from the Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Ministry were nabbed at the Ministry's office in Beaufort between 12.25pm and 12.40pm on Thursday.Sabah MACC Director Datuk Sazali Salbi said MACC made the arrests upon receiving a complaint that the three went to the trader's shop for inspection of price tags and weighing scale on July 14.
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In the trader's report dated July 19, he said, the three suspects asked for RM600 from the trader if the latter does not wish to be issued with a compound for committing offences related to price tags on certain goods and on weighing scale under the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering Act 2011.
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