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KUALA LUMPUR: The man behind the “Papagomo Original” Facebook page was detained in Perak yesterday, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said.

Khalid broke the news via his Twitter handle @KBAB51 yesterday afternoon, congratulating the police team which managed to trace and arrest the suspect in Perak.

The Papagomo Original page on Facebook describes itself as “penentang Cina cauvanis dan komunis secara online” (opponent of chauvinist Chinese and communists online).

It has carried racial posts of the handphone theft and subsequent fighting at Low Yat Plaza on July 11 and 12, and appears to be critical of Khalid, accusing him of sympathising with the Chinese over the fracas.

The page also carries a photo of a WhatsApp chat that has been circulating on social media, purportedly showing Khalid soliciting a RM20,000 bribe from Papagomo, the pseudonym of a pro-Umno blogger who was detained by police over the brawling at Low Yat Plaza.

The screen grab of the alleged chat was put up after the blogger, whose real name is Wan Mohd Azri Wan Derus, was arrested last Tuesday. He was held in remand and released last Friday.

Khalid denied seeking a bribe and said police are investigating the Facebook post.

Papagomo has been identified by police as one of those spreading messages that incited a mob to protest outside Low Yat Plaza on July 12. The gathering turned violent and five people were injured.

But his lawyer Ahmad Shuaib Ismail said that the Facebook page could not have been updated while his client was in police custody. — The Malaysian Insider

 

This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on July 23, 2015.

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