Kota Kinabalu City deputy police chief Supt Ramli Ali Mat said the men were with an air-conditioning service company and had worked at the house a day before it was ransacked on May 11.
Ramli said the suspects, aged between 20 and 40, were arrested on Friday.
He also stressed that the break-in was not politically motivated.
Tsen, who was in Sandakan when masked men broke into her house here, had reported to the police that an iron safe containing, among others, cash and jewellery, her passport and the birth certificates of her four children, had been carted away.
Supt Ramli said the loot included RM50,000 cash, between US$20,000 and US$30,000 cash, and $4,000 in Australian currency.
The men, armed with parang, had forced open the back door of Tsen's house after tying up the maid and cutting off the CCTV's wires. They then ransacked the house and escaped in a car.
Supt Ramli said Tsen's maid and driver were detained and released after being cleared of any involvement.
Tsen was elected as Batu Sapi MP in November last year to replace her husband Datuk Edmund Chong, who was killed in a road accident a month earlier.
All her children are studying in Australia.
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