Cops investigating bail fundraiser for delivery riders nabbed over brawl

Police are tracking down the Facebook account owner of “Gabungan Pertubuhan-Pertubuhan Pembela Islam” (Alliance of Islamic Defenders Organisations), for allegedly launching a fund collection purportedly to pay bail for five food delivery riders who were remanded following a brawl with a customer in Sungai Way, Petaling Jaya on Friday.

Petaling Jaya district police chief ACP Mohamad Fakhruddin Abdul Hamid said the collection under the name “Tabung Kilat Ikat Jamin Rider Foodpanda” (Foodpanda Riders Bail Flash Fund) claimed that the five riders needed to pay bail money of about RM3,000 to RM4,000 per person.

Donations were to be channelled into a...