KUALA LUMPUR: Police have launched an investigation into allegations by a local female rapper who claimed that a Subang Jaya City Council (MBSJ) officer secretly recorded her while she was unclothed during a massage session at a centre in Subang Jaya.
Subang Jaya district police chief Assistant Commissioner Wan Azlan Wan Mamat said the case is being investigated under Section 186 and Section 509 of the Penal Code for obstructing civil servants from carrying out their duties and insulting the modesty of a woman, respectively.
He added that the case is also being investigated under Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 for the dissemination of footage from the raid conducted by MBSJ.
Wan Azlan said the investigation into the case was launched following reports lodged by an MBSJ officer and the female rapper.
He said the MBSJ officer claimed that he had instructed his raiding party to record videos and take photos as evidence when they raided a beauty and wellness centre in Subang Jaya at about 6pm on Dec 4.
"Upon inspection, it was found that the premises was operating without a valid business licence from MBSJ.
"During the inspection, the raiding party was provoked by a local woman who refused to provide her identification card and questioned the documentation carried out by the team.
"Preliminary investigations showed that the complainant and his team were provoked by the suspect, who also recorded the team's actions using her mobile phone," Wan Azlan said in a statement today.
He said the MBSJ officer and the suspect then reviewed the footage on the team members' devices and found no images or videos of the suspect.
The MBSJ officer, he said, also explained to the suspect that the raid was conducted in accordance with the standard operating procedures (SOPs) set out under the MBSJ Beauty and Health Care Centre 2013 by-law.
"The MBSJ officer lodged a police report regarding the clip of the raid, which had been circulated on social media by the suspect.
"The suspect, in turn, filed a police report claiming that the raiding party recorded footage of her without clothes during a massage," he added.
Wan Azlan also urged anyone with additional information to come forward and assist in the investigation by contacting the Subang Jaya district police headquarters at 03-78627100 or the investigating officer, Inspector Fadizah Ajamain, at 019-8582166.
The Rakyat Post reported yesterday that the female rapper claimed that an MBSJ officer had secretly recorded her while she was unclothed during a massage session at a parlour in SS14, Subang Jaya.
In a series of social media posts on X, the rapper alleged that she heard male voices about 15 minutes into her massage at the centre.
The rapper further claimed that an officer had recorded her while she was unclothed. Unhappy with the situation, she confronted the raiding party and asked who had recorded her.
She claimed that she was told by one of the officers that recording was part of MBSJ's SOP.