KUALA LUMPUR: Police have arrested an engineer from a government-linked company for “inciting terrorist acts” after he made a bomb threat on Facebook.
Bukit Aman in a statement said that the man was picked up from his home in Parit Buntar, Perak on Friday evening and has been remanded until Wednesday for investigations.
He is being probed under Section 130G of the Penal Code for inciting or promoting “the commission of terrorist acts”, Bukit Aman said on Saturday.
“Police raided his house and confiscated items which were used at the time to upload the status,” the statement said.
The engineer had reportedly threatened to “shake Kuala Lumpur and the Malaysian prime minister’s residence with a bomb explosion” last week, blaming Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak for causing hardship to the “rakyat”.
The post caused army veteran Mohd Ali Baharom aka Ali Tinju to lodge a police report against the engineer.
Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Noor Rasuid Ibrahim said he viewed the posting, which received less than 10 likes, as a threat.
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PETALING JAYA: Bukit Aman’s anti-terrorism director has said that he and the Prime Minister, Najib Razak, were among those on a shortlist of targets for Islamic State militants.
Senior Asst Commissioner Ayub Khan Mydin Pitchay was quoted in a China Press interview saying that he, Najib, and certain other ministers had also received death threats from supporters of the terrorist network.
He and Najib are listed as targets for being enemies of the militant group’s cause, and of being traitors to Islam.
Supporters of the militant group urged them to stop government actions to curb the influence of Islamic State in Malaysia.
“From my knowledge, the prime minister as well as certain other ministers who have supported the ongoing efforts against militancy have received similar threats,” Ayub was quoted as saying in the daily.
He said the police feared the possibility of Malaysian students studying in the Middle East being influenced to join militant activities in those countries and urged Malaysian student representatives abroad to monitor the movements of Malaysian students.
However there were difficulties in keeping track of them as many students did not register with the embassy
