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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Cops look into claim IGP asked Papagomo for RM20,000 to settle Low Yat case

A screen grab of the alleged conversation between an Umno blogger and Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar to settle the case was posted on the Papagomo Original Facebook page. – Facebook screenshot, July 19, 2015.A screen grab of the alleged conversation between an Umno blogger and Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar to settle the case was posted on the Papagomo Original Facebook page. – Facebook screenshot, July 19, 2015.
The inspector-general of police has denied allegations in a circulated WhatsApp conversation that he purportedly solicited a RM20,000 bribe from Umno blogger Papagomo who was detained by police over his involvement in a brawl at Low Yat Plaza  last weekend, The Star reported.
Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said investigations have started into the Papagomo Original Facebook page, where the alleged screen grab of the conversation between the blogger and Khalid to “settle the case” was posted.
Khalid also reportedly said the blogger's lawyer had made a report saying the page did not belong to Papagomo, whose real name is Wan Mohd Azri Wan Deris.
The Facebook page had also posted rumours of supposed meetings between Malay NGOs and plans for a massive armed brawl in Low Yat yesterday.
It was put up after the blogger's arrest.
The blogger's lawyer, Ahmad Shuaib Ismail, reportedly said Papagomo could not have been updating it while he was in custody.
The blogger allegedly posted a picture of an injured Malay robbery victim on his social media, claiming he was a victim of the Low Yat Plaza brawl.
Police then arrested him for allegedly fanning racial tensions.
The drama at Low Yat Plaza unfolded last Saturday when two youths visited a handphone outlet to buy a Lenovo S860 smartphone worth RM799.
The salesman, who attended to them, told police that the youths ran off with the phone as he turned away to get a free gift.
A chase ensued and mobile phone dealers in another shop caught the suspects and assaulted them before handing them over to the plaza's security guards who called in the police.
One of the suspects was later released and it is believed that he returned to the plaza with his friends and attacked the store where the employees had helped detain the suspects earlier.
Last Sunday, some 200 people congregated at the plaza, forcing authorities to order businesses at the premises to close early.
Police cordoned off the area, but a crowd gathered again after midnight and fights broke out. At least five people, including media personnel, were reportedly injured in the incident.
So far, Bagan Umno division head Datuk Shaik Hussein Mydin, Papagomo and army veteran Mohd Ali Baharom, popularly known as Ali Tinju, have been arrested.
Papagomo and Shaik Hussein were released on Friday by police, while Ali was charged with sedition over racially charged comments made before the brawl. He claimed trial to the charge.
- TMI

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