Malaysia is exploring 12 policemen associated with contribution in human-trafficking camps found in the remote north of the nation.
Four of them had been captured amid different police examinations since ahead of schedule a year ago, said Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.
Powers said 139 graves had been found on the fringe with Thailand.
The course is utilized by human dealers bringing vagrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh into Malaysia.
The transients are principally Rohingya Muslims escaping abuse in Myanmar - otherwise called Burma - or monetary vagrants from Bangladesh.
The eight other policemen were captured by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission for asserted contribution in human trafficking, Mr Wan Junaidi said.
"We will need to see regardless of whether there are any connections to the camps. Since the captures were made in the north, we think there may be some association," he told journalists outside parliament.
Torment and ill-use
On Tuesday, powers began exhuming the graves, found in wilderness in northern Perlis state, to affirm what number of bodies they held, and who they were.
Thai police revealed comparable surrendered camps on the Thai side of the fringe prior in May.
Reports from news organizations taken to see the camps in Malaysia nitty gritty confirmation of torment and ill-use.
Reports in Malaysian media addressed whether authorities on both sides of the fringe were complicit. On Tuesday, Malaysia said park officers were under scrutiny for suspected association in human-trafficking.
The disclosure of camps in Thailand set off a crackdown on human-trafficking that seems to have driven traffickers to relinquish their human load on watercrafts in the waters off Thailand.
The pontoons, packed with several starving transients, began impending aground in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Confronting global weight, the two nations consented to give makeshift safe house to the transients on the condition that they will be repatriated by different nations inside of a year.
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