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Malaysian policeman charged wi
A senior Malaysian policeman was charged Tuesday with laundering more than 1.2 million ringgit (US$343,000; €243,040), an official and news reports said, in a boost to the government's flagging crackdown on corruption.
Superintendent of Police Azmi Osman pleaded not guilty in a court in southern Johor state of laundering money that was wired to his bank account between 2003 and 2005, the national news agency Bernama reported.
An Anti-Corruption Agency official, who declined to be named because he is not authorized to make public statements, said Azmi was believed to have ... Read more
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Newark Star Ledger - NJ, USA
06 October 2006
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Irvington cop charged with cor
An Irvington police officer charged with hiding stolen guns, drugs and other case evidence in a rented storage locker was arraigned on corruption charges this morning in a Newark courtroom.
Clad in a black suit, Frederick Southerland betrayed little emotion as he appeared before Superior Court Judge Donald Volkert to answer charges of second-degree official misconduct and third-degree receiving stolen property.
His lawyer, Hassen Ibn Abdellah, waived the reading of the charges and entered a plea of not guilty for his client. Volkert continued bail at $100,000, which Southerland has already posted.
Southerland, 49, an 18-year police veteran who lives in Irvington, was arrested after he failed to keep up payments on the locker at City Closet Storage on Springfield Avenue in Union Township, authorities said.
The storage facility put the contents of the locker up for auction after Southerland failed to pay his bill for 10 months and ignored certified letters warning him to retrieve his property.
The man who claimed to have bought the material for $180 without knowing the contents of the boxes turned out to be the brother of Passaic County Detective Richard Diaz, according to the charges.
A day after purchasing the material, Diaz's brother received a call from the storage facility's manager, who told him Southerland had learned of the auction and wanted to buy back his boxes, authorities said.
Southerland later spoke to Diaz' brother, who has not been identified, and told him there were weapons in the boxes that were illegal for him to possess, and the two made arrangements to meet.
But Detective Diaz said his brother became suspicious after Southerland kept saying he needed to get back DVDs and videotapes in the boxes.
Diaz's brother told police he finally opened the boxes and found a pile of police evidence. Prosecutors said the boxes contained five handguns; 30 marked evidence bags containing cocaine, heroin and marijuana; a shrink-wrapped bundle of $800 in single dollar bills; pornographic Polariods; and numerous case files from the Irvington juvenile bureau and internal affairs bureau - some more than a decade old.
Also in the boxes were personal pictures of Southerland along with police IDs and police shields.
Detective Diaz said that after being alerted by his brother about the contents of the boxes, he posed as his brother in conversations with Southerland. After several scheduled meetings between the two men fell through, Southerland was arrested while on duty at Irvington police headquarters on Sept. 22.
John Anderson, the assistant Essex County prosecutor assigned to the case, said his office was still investigating what images are on the DVDs and videotapes and whether any specific cases corresponded to the stored evidence.
"We are still investigating all those questions," he said. "We don't know yet."
Abdellah, who declined to comment after the arraignment, said his client was suspended without pay and was already facing an internal investigation in his department before the discovery of the storage locker. He did not indicate the nature of the investigation.
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