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...tenth of what they cost in the West. Lucky and Flo, too, nosed their way to back-street shops that hawk bootleg films. But unlike the average Western tourist, this American duo was there to bust, not buy. The pair of black Labradors, who arrived in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur in March, are the first dogs specifically trained to sniff out DVDs and, thus, lead investigators to any hidden caches of pirated material...
...Lucky and Flo did not disappoint. During their five-month mission in Malaysia, their detective work helped unearth $6 million in pirated DVDs and led to the arrests of 26 people. One bust targeted a bootleg-DVD factory near Kuala Lumpur that Malaysian officials estimate could have produced 60,000 copies...
Police reportedly arrested Tan, 27, in connection with a comment made on one of his blog posts in February. The anonymous comment suggested that Malaysian Deputy Internal Security Minister Johari Baharom, the subject of a now-closed investigation into accusations of corruption, bribed officials into dropping the inquiry. Tan says he had nothing to do with the comment...
Attempts to reach Malaysian police on Friday were unsuccessful...
...foundation is headed by former top Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who spent five years in prison on corruption charges and was later convicted of sodomy before the Malaysian Supreme Court overturned the second conviction, prompting his release in September 2004. Both Tan and Ibrahim are members of the People’s Justice Party, which has clashed with Malaysia’s largest political party, the United Malays National Organization...