Top cop's son held by ACA

Top cop's son held by ACA by Charles Ramendran KUALA LUMPUR: A top brass federal police officer's son was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) for allegedly taking bribes to secure City Hall licences to set up Ramadan trading stalls. Sources say the 32year-old suspect, an unemployed, was detained together with a 25-year-old accomplice believed to be a City Hall officer, at a shopping centre on Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman about 4pm on Wednesday. The city ACA rushed a team to the shopping centre following a tip-off from an anonymous caller. The team staked out the place and detained both men after RM12,000 was handed over to the suspects. The payment is said to be an inducement from traders to secure City Hall's Ramadan-month stalls in the city which are permitted to operate until Hari Raya Aidilfitri. It is also learnt that the police officer's son had secured 18 of such stalls. Yesterday, the suspects were brought before a magistrate who issued a three-day remand order. On Thursday, theSun reported that there is big demand for choice trading lots at the Bazaar Ramadan on Jalan Mesjid India which were obtained through a balloting system by City Hall. Some traders have alleged that there were discrepancies in the issuance of the licences.They alleged that the stalls had been given to non-traders who paid RM300 for each lot but sold them to genuine stall operators for between RM2,000 and RM6,000 each.