Ex-cop demands AG reopen buried assault report against border chief

KUALA LUMPUR - A former policeman has petitioned the Attorney General to resurrect a dormant 2015 assault report against Malaysian Border Control and Protection Agency (AKPS) chief Datuk Seri Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain, claiming a decade-long cover-up cost him his badge. The bombshell demand comes barely a week after Shuhaily was hauled into the Sepang Magistrate’s Court on two charges of assaulting police personnel at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). According to lawyers Kamal Hisham Ja'afar and Muhammad Nor Tamrin, their client, Saifuddin Abdul Kader, lodged a police report against Shuhaily on November 19, 2015—back when the high-ranking official was the Hilir Perak District Police Chief. Despite the formal complaint, Shuhaily was never held to account, the lawyers revealed today. "We received tip-offs from the public about a complainant who was allegedly assaulted by Shuhaily in 2015," their joint statement read. "Even after a formal police report was filed, not an inch of action was taken against him to this very day." Instead, it was the whistleblowing junior rank-and-file cop who suffered the fallout, enduring severe administrative pushback that ultimately led to his discharge from the force. The decade-old incident allegedly occurred at 8:30 a.m. on November 17, 2015, while Saifuddin was manning the sentry post at the Hilir Perak district police headquarters. Saifuddin alleged that Shuhaily berated him in front of colleagues for failing to salute, escalated the confrontation into violence by punching his left wrist, and threatened disciplinary exile to Sabah or Sarawak. Emboldened by the Attorney General's recent decision to charge the powerful agency head over the airport brawl, Saifuddin now believes the door for long-denied justice is finally open. "After witnessing the AG’s department apply the law without fear or favour against Shuhaily, Saifuddin believes this administration will finally hear him," the legal team said, formally demanding an urgent review to uphold the rule of law. Shuhaily pleaded not guilty on October 21 to two counts under Section 323 of the Penal Code for voluntarily causing hurt at KLIA on September 28—charges that carry up to a year's jail, a RM2,000 fine, or both per count. - October 28, 2026 The post Ex-cop demands AG reopen buried assault report against border chief appeared first on Scoop .