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The Sun
22-05-2025
- The Sun
Kedah MACC detains three including a Datuk for allegedly submitting false claims
ALOR SETAR: The Kedah Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has remanded three individuals, including the managing director of a company with the title of Datuk, on suspicion of submitting false claims worth approximately RM48,000 to a security force agency. According to a source, the two male suspects and one female suspect, all in their 50s, were arrested between 4 pm and 5 pm yesterday when they appeared to give their statements at the Kedah MACC office here. The source stated that the main suspect is believed to have committed the act between 2020 and 2023, involving claims for the supply of raw, wet, and dry food amounting to approximately RM48,000 to national security forces conducting control duties at frontline posts. 'Also arrested were two employees of the supplying company who are suspected of colluding with the main suspect in preparing and submitting claim documents for which no supplies are believed to have been made,' the source said. Meanwhile, Kedah MACC Director Datuk Ahmad Nizam Ismail, when contacted, confirmed the arrests and said the case is being investigated under Section 18 of the MACC Act 2009.
The Sun
22-05-2025
- The Sun
Datuk among 3 remanded for false claims
ALOR SETAR: The Kedah Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has remanded three individuals, including the managing director of a company with the title of Datuk, on suspicion of submitting false claims worth approximately RM48,000 to a security force agency. According to a source, the two male suspects and one female suspect, all in their 50s, were arrested between 4 pm and 5 pm yesterday when they appeared to give their statements at the Kedah MACC office here. The source stated that the main suspect is believed to have committed the act between 2020 and 2023, involving claims for the supply of raw, wet, and dry food amounting to approximately RM48,000 to national security forces conducting control duties at frontline posts. 'Also arrested were two employees of the supplying company who are suspected of colluding with the main suspect in preparing and submitting claim documents for which no supplies are believed to have been made,' the source said. Meanwhile, Kedah MACC Director Datuk Ahmad Nizam Ismail, when contacted, confirmed the arrests and said the case is being investigated under Section 18 of the MACC Act 2009.
The Star
23-04-2025
- The Star
MACC arrests two public servants for accepting bribes
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has arrested two public servants for reportedly accepting bribes to facilitate the transfer of smuggled contraband to a Narcotics Addiction Rehabilitation Centre in Kedah. Both suspects, aged in their thirties and fifties, were arrested on Tuesday (April 22) and brought to the Kedah MACC headquarters in Sungai Petani. Sources said that the duo had taken bribes worth RM4,600 to allow the contraband to be brought in for detainees. "Investigations showed that the suspects had committed the offence between 2023 and 2024 and that 12 transactions were made, each worth between RM200 and RM650. "Both suspects were believed to have received the bribes by putting the funds in their respective bank accounts," the source said. Meanwhile, Kedah MACC director Datuk Ahmad Nizam Ismail confirmed the arrest, adding that the case was being investigated under Section 17(a) of the MACC Act 2009.
