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New Straits Times
14-05-2025
- New Straits Times
Trio, including ex-director, remanded over RM2.5mil false claims
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has remanded three people, including a former executive director, who are suspected of conspiring to submit false documents in claims amounting to RM2.5 million. Putrajaya sessions court magistrate Mohd Dinie Shazwan Ab. Shukor granted a five-day remand order until May 18 this morning. The suspects, a man and two women, are aged between 30 and 40. Sources said the trio were detained between 4pm and 7pm yesterday while providing statements at the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya. "They are believed to have committed the offence between 2022 and 2024, involving reimbursement and bonus payment claims totalling around RM2.5 million," the source said. MACC Anti-Money Laundering Division director Norhaizam Muhammad when contacted, confirmed the arrests and said the case is being investigated under Section 18 of the MACC Act 2009.
New Straits Times
13-05-2025
- New Straits Times
MACC detains trio in RM21mil corruption, money laundering probe
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has detained three officers from two banking institutions in the city on suspicion of involvement in money laundering and corruption linked to loan applications totalling over RM21 million. Sources said the business manager, department head and branch manager are believed to have jointly possessed, altered, transferred and used funds from bribes received from three companies last year. "Preliminary investigations indicate that the department head had allegedly solicited and received over RM170,000 in bribes from the three companies, which had submitted a total of five loan applications amounting to more than RM21 million. "The bribes were given in return for processing and approving the loan applications submitted," said a source. MACC detained the three suspects between 4pm and 5pm yesterday at the commission's headquarters in Putrajaya, where they were having their statements recorded. MACC also froze four individual bank accounts involving about RM268,000 and seized three telecommunication devices along with a laptop. MACC Anti-Money Laundering Division director Norhaizam Muhammad confirmed the arrests, saying that the case was being investigated under Section 4(1) of the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001. The suspects will be brought to the Putrajaya magistrate's court this morning for a remand application.
