Singaporean family has been arrested and detained for 14 days for a probe into their alleged verbal abuse against an Immigration Department officer from Malaysia during a border inspection.
Johor Immigration Department Datuk Rohaizi Bahari said the two-week remand of the Singaporean trio was to facilitate the investigations into the incident last week.
“It is an offence to hurl abuse at my men who are just following the procedures during checks,” he was quoted saying by local daily The Star.
“So far our investigation also showed that the officer did not ask for any bribe as alleged by the suspects,” he added.
Rohaizi said individuals dissatisfied with the officers under him could file a direct complaint to him.
According to The Star, the arrest was carried out after the Singaporeans refused to lower the back window of their Singapore-bound car with tinted windows for inspection at the Bangunan Sultan Iskandar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine Complex.
The trio were reportedly a businesswoman in her 40s and her children aged 18 and 19 respectively.
In the Friday afternoon incident, the woman was said to have verbally abused the immigration officer carrying out the inspection, while one of the trio purportedly gave a middle finger gesture.
The investigation of the trio is under Section 56(1)(g) of the Immigration Act, where the penalty is a maximum RM10,000 fine or a maximum jail term if five years or both.
Source: The Malay Mail Online
