The National Police’s Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) has named seven Kuala Lumpur Overseas Election Committee (PPLN) officials as suspects for allegedly tampering with the voter list amid probes of irregularities surrounding the voting process in the Malaysian capital.

The polling committee officials were named suspects for inaccurate drafting of the final voter list for the Kuala Lumpur voting region due to the influence of lobbying from representatives of political parties, said Bareskrim’s general crimes director Brig. Gen. Djuhandani Rahardjo Puro.

“Based on the facts found in our investigation, we named six suspects for illegally adding or removing names from the voter list. The other one is for allegedly falsifying data for the list,” Djuhandani said on Thursday, as quoted by Antara.

Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) head Rahmat Bagja confirmed to the press on Thursday that the seven suspects were the same PPLN members suspended by the General Elections Commission (KPU) earlier this week. The commission cited an issue marring the voting process in Kuala Lumpur as the suspension reason but did not specify the problem.

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Out of nearly 500,000 voters casting their ballots in Kuala Lumpur, officials tasked with updating the voters list (Pantarlih) only properly verified and matched data of 64,148 people, fewer than 13 percent of the total potential voters in the city, according to Bareskrim.

Earlier this week, Bawaslu also said that it found 18 fake Pantarlih staffers, potentially related to the bloated number of voters in Kuala Lumpur.

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