Police investigating allegations of Pahang Assemblyman fishing with explosives

KUANTAN – Police have opened an investigation paper over the viral case involving the use of explosives to fish at Sepia River, Ulu Tembeling, Jerantut allegedly related to a Pahang state assemblyman recently.

Pahang Deputy Police Chief Datuk Mohd Yusri Hassan said the investigation into the matter involved two agencies which were the police and the Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan).

Yusri said the investigation was conducted under Section 203A of the Penal Code and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 as the issue was circulated on social media.

"The investigations over the use of explosives will be conducted by Perhilitan," he said when met at the Pahang Police Chief Monthly Assembly in the Pahang Contingent Police Headquarters here today.

Yusri said investigations were still in progress and his officers would call upon all witnesses involved in the case to aid in investigations," he said.

He said that a contractor had come forward to deny the allegations that explosives were used to fish in the Sepia River, Ulu Tembeling as what had gone viral on social media recently.

Mohd Rosli Awang, 44, instead, admitted to throwing a 'mercun bola' into the river on July 16.

The action was alleged to have nothing to do with other parties including the Assemblyman who was on a working visit to Ulu Tembeling at the time.