The MACC and the government contended that they are not responsible for any alleged robbery by two antigraft officers and a former officer against a businessperson from China nearly three years ago.

The two defendants claimed that this is because any such acts were done outside the trio's official scope of duty and on a “frolic of their own” against plaintiff Gao Kun.

The MACC and government made the contention in their statement of defence filed at the Kuala Lumpur High Court today...