GEORGE TOWN: Police yesterday arrested an Immigration officer believed to have extorted from a Bangladeshi at a business premises at Jalan Datuk Keramat here.
Two men, including the officer, who had gone to the shop, had also assaulted the 48-year-old Bangladeshi for allegedly acting in a disrespectful manner earlier.
Northeast district police chief Assistant Commissioner Anuar Omar said the officer, 29, had initially gone to the shop with two friends on Sept 2 and taken RM700 and three boxes of cigarettes.
"Following yesterday's incident, we received a report from the victim and immediately arrested the officer at the scene.
"Upon interrogation, he admitted extorting cigarettes and money from the victim over the last three months," he said in a press statement today.
The man's sling bag containing two boxes of cigarettes, a Bangladesh passport, prison department's card and immigration department's identity card was confiscated following his arrest.
According to the man's record, he had previously worked as a prison warden before joining the immigration department early last year.
He was detained in February last year for possessing ketum juice.
The man has been remanded for six days under Section 385 of the Penal Code for putting a person in fear of injury in order to commit extortion.