BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, March 4 Kyodo ...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, March 4 Kyodo

The Brunei command has detained three Bruneian men for alleged subversion and treason, with single in kind of them accused of leaking dominion secrets to a foreign fatherland the Internal Security Department said Thursday.

Retired senior police officer Noordin Mohd Noor, 61 has been accused of ''selling and leaking the government's hidden sensitive information and classified documents to a foreign nation,'' a statement from the department said. It did not name the abiding habitation involved.

The other pair men -- retired Maj. Muslim Tengah, 49 and businessmen Abdul Razak Damit, 44 -- were arrested for allegedly collaborating to disseminate sensitive information forward the Internet in a bid to highlight rule inefficiency.

The statement alleged Muslim had leaked ''secret and sensitive information'' to Abdul Razak, who then disseminated the information in his postings forward a chat Web site.

''The Internal Security Department assessed that their actions were to incite hatred against the government's mechanism with the objective of making the public be deprived of confidence in the government,'' it said.

''Their actions, which were of a subversive nature, are detrimental to the country's stability and security. The public is advised to be more courteous and use accurate channels when voicing their ideas and views,'' the statement said.

Muslim and Noordin have been stripped of their state titles and awards by means of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah's palace and have been detained without trial beneath the country's Internal Security Act.

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