Lawyers deny cops in AKPS chief’s case funded by crime rings

The case gained public attention after CCTV footage allegedly showing AKPS director-general Shuhaily Zain confronting a person at KLIA went viral.

PETALING JAYA: The lawyers acting for two policemen allegedly roughed up by Malaysian Border Control and Protection Agency (AKPS) director-general Shuhaily Zain have rubbished claims that their clients are funded by criminal syndicates.

Messrs Kamal Hisham & Associates warned that its clients reserve the right to sue those spreading such allegations, Utusan Malaysia reported.

It said the law firm had also been implicated in the allegations.

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