Eight more members of the Upik Gang, including former policemen, are being hunted
January 23, 2024
Ayob Khan said, eight including a former policeman who is believed to be a member of the largest drug trafficking syndicate in Sabah known as the Upik Gang are being hunted by the police. - Photo of Bukit Aman
Eight more members of the Upik Gang, including former policemen, are being hunted
Ayob Khan said, eight including a former policeman who is believed to be a member of the largest drug trafficking syndicate in Sabah known as the Upik Gang are being hunted by the police. - Photo of Bukit Aman
KUALA LUMPUR: Eight including a former policeman who is believed to be a member of Sabah's largest drug trafficking syndicate known as the Upik Gang are being hunted by the police.
Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Datuk Seri Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said, the former policeman was identified as Haibil Kiraman, 48, who retired early on 1 November 2021 and was finally located in Tawau, Sabah.
According to him, two other local citizens are Absar Musa, 37, and Sahairul Din Sabudin, 37, whose final locations were respectively traced to Kota Kinabalu and Tawau.
"The other five individuals, consisting of four Filipinos and an Indonesian woman, were identified as Hasan Syamsuddin (Nas Botak), Joel Edwin (Dedek), Muhammad Sing Harun Musa (Thambi), Manan Ungok (Mike) and Rohani Mohd. Yunus (Karisa ).
"Next are four Filipinos namely Muhammad Sing Harun Musa, Joel Edwin, Hasan Syamsuddin and Manan Ungok with their final locations in Tawau and Papar, Sabah respectively," he said in a press conference at the Bukit Aman Police Headquarters on Tuesday.
In the meantime, in the same development, he said, three other individual members including a woman believed to be involved with the Upik Gang drug trafficking syndicate will be charged in court on March 1.
According to him, the three individuals aged 25 to 29 are now in a moral rehabilitation center and are serving sentences for other offences.
"Investigation found that they were part of the drug trafficking syndicate, who may have acted as transporters ," he explained.
Commenting further, Ayob Khan said, in that case, the police froze 42 accounts worth RM1.86 million for the period from December 27 last year to January 19 last year with the addition of freezing eight accounts totaling RM543,378.58.
"Among the property freezing and confiscation are 10 machinery, 11 properties, 20 vehicles, RM35,041 in cash and jewelery (RM100,000).
"To be clear, the total amount of freezing and confiscation of assets is RM9.72 million," he said.
Meanwhile, in the case of 11 individuals including a man with the title of Datuk who was allegedly a member of the Upik Gang organized crime group at the Kota Kinabalu Sessions Court, on Monday, then Ayob Khan explained that two of them were police officers with the rank of Inspector from the Criminal Investigation Department (JSJ) and members of the rank of A sergeant on duty in the General Operations Force (PGA).
Accordingly, he asked the public who have information about the eight suspects who are being hunted to contact the nearest police station immediately.
