Malaysian top cop has $320k seized by Australian Police
One of Malaysia’s highest ranking police officers has been stripped of more than $320,000 by the Australian Federal Police, which suspected his Sydney bank account held laundered money or proceeds of crime. Wan Ahmad Najmuddin bin Mohd, now the head of Malaysia’s criminal investigations department, opened a Commonwealth Bank “Goal Saver” account in 2011, listing his address at Bankstown and then Glebe in Sydney. One week after the decorated public official concluded an Australian trip in 2016, the account received a flurry of suspicious cash deposits. Unknown depositors visited branches and ATMs around the country, from Biloela in country Queensland to Devonport in northern Tasmania to Lakemba in Sydney’s west and Melbourne’s CBD. The account balance grew by nearly $290,000 in a month, mostly in structured deposits below $10,000, the threshold above which law enforcement agencies receive mandatory notifications. Mr Najmuddin has not tried to wrest the money back from authorities, sa...
