95 people awarded titles in bogus ceremony by ‘Datuk’


Major haul: Comm Asri (centre) and his team showing the medals and other items that were seized during the ceremony in Alor Setar.

ALOR SETAR: About 200 guests, including several VIPs and retired civil servants from various states, attended a four-hour investiture ceremony at a hotel here which saw 95 people being awarded various medals and titles. It was all fake.

Soon after the “investiture” ceremony, police raided and detained a “Datuk” over his role in the medal scam, which was done using the name of a member of the royalty.

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