Police cripple gang extorting foreign workers

JOHOR BARU: The police detain three men suspected of being involved in extorting foreign workers in an operation in Jalan Sungai Danga, at midnight, yesterday.

Nusajaya District Police Headquarters, in a statement here today, said all the suspects, aged 20 to 27 years, were detained at a road block.

The statement said the detentions were a follow-up on extortion cases by the roadside near the East Ledang kongsi house, Nusajaya.

"At about midnight, police were tipped off that a Bangladeshi man working as a construction labourer had been taken aboard a car by three unknown men in a brown Proton Saga.

"Police then detected the car at the persisiran Ledang roundabout and informed the Nusajaya District Control Centre for dissemination. During the chase, the suspect's car came to a road block and was stopped," said the statement.
According to the statement, the 24-year-old victim was rescued unharmed. Also seized were six cell-phones of various models, a sling bag, a car, cash and a truncheon.

An investigation found the gang has been active since three months ago but the victims did not lodge reports, the statement added. – Bernama