Civil servant, ex-state official nabbed over RM66,000 bribery in land application
KOTA KINABALU (June 17): The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Sabah has arrested a civil servant and a former state government department staff on suspicion of soliciting and accepting bribes amounting to RM66,000 as inducement to process land applications and conduct land lot surveys.
According to sources, the two male suspects, aged in their 50s and 60s, were detained between 10am and 11am on Tuesday after giving their statements at the Sabah MACC office.
'The suspects are believed to have committed the offence around 2016, despite neither being authorised to process land applications nor owning the land lots involved in the survey,' said a source.
Initial investigations revealed that the suspects allegedly received bribes amounting to RM54,000 and RM12,000 respectively from multiple individuals to facilitate the processing of land applications and the census of land lots under the state government's land scheme.
When contacted, Sabah MACC director Datuk S. Karunanithy confirmed the arrests and said the case is being investigated under Section 17(a) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009.
He added that both suspects are expected to be charged soon.
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