"We've known for quite some time that he had been recruiting inmates [there], but we can't disclose when it started".
He said they had been arrested before on February 7, 2013, for involvement in terrorist activities.
An Albanian man who guest lectures at a public university was arrested October 1 after police intelligence indicated he is linked to members of the Islamic State terror group overseas.
He added that the suspect, who had just been released from prison, was arrested with a 37-year-old acquaintance in Tapah on Friday. "Those who have been radicalised have also been identified", he was quoted saying.
Policemen, army personnel and women were among those arrested in Malaysia before they travelled to Syria to join IS.
According to the Singapore paper, seven prison wardens had fallen under the influence of radicalised inmates past year, prompting the Malaysian Home Ministry to begin isolating prisoners held for militant activities to curb the spread of the terror ideology within the prison system.
The country's top cop said one of the suspects - a 53-year-old man- was also a former Internal Security Act detainee.
Five of them are Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) militants who have been arranging safe passage into Malaysia for their comrades since 2015.
The final arrests were of one man suspected of trying to organize attacks on places of worship, and a second who allegedly sought to recruit people to a local extremist group.
"We believe they were making travel arrangements for ASG militants into Malaysia".
Fears have been growing in Malaysia that Muslim militants are ramping up their activities, inspired by the Islamic State (IS) group and a conflict in Marawi city in the neighboring Philippines between jihadists and authorities.
"Two Malaysians, two Filipinos and another Filipino with Malaysian Permanent Resident (PR) status, all aged between 30 and 53 were arrested", he said in a statement.
The Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Fuzi Harun (pix) said that the first spate of arrests were made in Sandakan, Sabah on Sept 27.
The other suspect, a 37-year-old man is believed to have recruited two Malaysians to join TAQM.
A grenade attack on a bar on the outskirts of the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, in June past year wounded eight people.
http://hitechbeacon.com/2017/10/08/prisoners-radicalised-by-detainee-with-militant-links.html
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