KUANTAN: Two civil servants, believed to be involved in the sale of 'Datuk' and 'Datuk Seri' Pahang state titles will be charged in the Sessions Court, here on Wednesday (Dec 28).
State police chief Datuk Seri Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf said the two men, aged 36 and 30 respectively, would be charged under Section 5(1) of the Computer Crimes Act 1997, punishable under Section 5(4) of the same law.
He said the suspects, who are with the Pahang State Secretary's office (SUK) as operations assistant and administrative assistant, are alleged to have wrongfully registered the names of 29 individuals into the system to obtain titles.
However, their activities were discovered by another Pahang SUK employee.
"A police report was lodged and the investigation found that the suspects allegedly entered the relevant data into the system without prior permission of their superiors or have misused the identification number provided by the office, " he told a press conference at Kuantan District Police Headquarters here on Tuesday (Dec 27).
Ramli said the two suspects are believed to be working with several agents and the titles were offered to individuals in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor for a fee of between RM80,000 and RM150,000 each.
"In addition to the two suspects, 29 individuals, aged between 40 and 60 years, involved have been questioned to help in the investigation.
"It was found that 15 individuals received fake Datuk titles while the rest received Datuk Seri titles and some medals and state insignias were seized," he said.
Meanwhile, Ramli informed that Pahang recorded losses of over RM20.3mil through three main commercial crimes, namely e-commerce, Macau scam and non-existent loans between January and November 2022.
He said the Commercial Crime Investigation Department had conducted 1,222 raids since Jan 1 and as a result, 1,278 people have been arrested for various offences. – Bernama
