MyWatch chairman Dato Sri Sanjeevan remanded until to to facilitate investigations into an alleged bid to extort “protection” money from an illegal gambling operator.
It is understood that the police would request to extend the anti-crime NGO chairman’s remand.
Sanjeevan was alleged to have contacted the 38-year-old operator at about 2.30pm on June 20, 2016 and threatened to expose his gambling operation unless he was given protection money.
Operator had pleaded with Sanjeevan to lower the “fees” as his business was not doing so good. However, Sanjeevan refused to do so, and at one point, even implied that he had been generous enough to waive the fee for a year previously.
Sources revealed that in another phone conversation, Sanjeeven allegedly implied that he might release stories on the operation his Facebook if he was not paid the protection money.
It is believed that the operator lodged a police report as he feared for his safety and that of his family, but agreed to meet Sanjeevan later on the pretext of handing over the money.
At 22.45PM on June 22, 2016, the operator met Sanjeevan at the Nilai toll plaza and handed over RM25,000 cash by placing it on the right side back seat of the vehicle as instructed by Sanjeevan
At 22.50PM a team from the Bukit Aman Crime Investigation Department (CID) D7 division swooped in and arrested Sanjeevan and his 26-year-old driver, who is an Indian national with an expired work permit.
At 22.50PM a team from the Bukit Aman Crime Investigation Department (CID) D7 division swooped in and arrested Sanjeevan and his 26-year-old driver, who is an Indian national with an expired work permit.
Upon further inspection of Sanjeevan’s vehicle, police found RM16,080 and five mobile phones.
Bukit Aman CID director Comm Datuk Seri Mohmad Salleh urged those who have been threatened by the suspect to come forward to assist in investigations.
“We also seized the suspect’s vehicle as part of the investigation. “We will investigate the matter further,” he said.
Sanjeevan is no stranger to controversy. In July 2013, he was shot at close range in Bahau, Negri Sembilan.
According to reports, Sanjeevan and a friend were driving to have a drink when two men riding a red motorcycle approached them. The pillion rider reportedly fired a shot, which hit Sanjeevan on the right side of his ribs.
In 2014, he received three live bullets in an envelope left in his family home’s mailbox in Bahau.
Earlier in June this year, Sanjeevan said he was warned by an unknown source that he could be detained by the authorities over his exposé of an alleged spa he claimed was operating as a vice den near the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters.Source: The Star
