Sabah Railway Graft Probe - Four Released, Two More Remanded
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Channel: 7Edition · 2018 · News & Politics
The Kota Kinabalu Magistrate’s Court ordered a five-day remand of two assistant engineers of the Sabah Railway Department to facilitate the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, MACC probe into suspected graft in a state railway project, beginning Wednesday. The order was made by magistrate Cindy Mc Juce Balitus for investigations to be carried out on the men, aged 38 and 36, who were the sixth and seventh suspects in the case, under Section 17 sub-section (a) of the MACC Act 2009. The two men were picked up from their office in Tanjung Aru to be questioned at the MACC office where they were subsequently arrested at about 9 pm on Tuesday. Meanwhile, four individuals, including a Deputy Director of the State Railway Department, two engineers and a contractor, were released on bail after being remanded for 10 days. The contractor was released on a RM100,000 bail with 20,000 deposited and the Deputy Director was released on a RM100,000 bail, without any deposit while the other two were released on bail of RM100,000 and RM50,000 undeposited, respectively. The MACC obtained a remand order against the four men for allegedly monopolising railway projects between 2012 and last year. The MACC also reported that the agency had seized some RM1.6 million in cash and frozen RM5.3 million in accounts in several banks in connection with the case.
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