Police have detained a man early today for allegedly trying to offer a bribe of RM200,000 to policemen as an inducement to release five of his friends who were involved in an investment scam syndicate.

Negeri Sembilan police chief Mohamad Mat Yusop said the local man, in his 30s, was picked up at 1.40am at a petrol station in Bandar Baru Nilai following the arrest of a syndicate’s members, comprising three men and two women aged between 21 and 24 about four hours earlier.

He said the five individuals were...