Sunday, August 28, 2016

DBKL ‘Datuk Seri’ in money laundering probe released

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Sunday, 28 August 2016

DBKL ‘Datuk Seri’ in money laundering probe released.



PUTRAJAYA: A Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) official with the title “Datuk Seri”, who was remanded for 12 days to facilitate investigation into a corruption and money laundering case, has been released.
The release order on the senior officer aged 54 was issued by magistrate Nik Isfahanie Tasnim Wan Ab Rahim on a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) bail of RM300,000.
The man was detained at his office at DBKL at 3.07pm on Aug 15 and remanded for seven days from Aug 16 to Aug 22.
The DBKL official was also further remanded for five days till yesterday on the application of the MACC, which wanted to conduct further searches and record the statement of the contractor allegedly linked to the man, and to get the relevant documents.
Meanwhile, a 64-year-old businessman “Datuk” was also released yesterday on a RM10,000 MACC bail.
He had been remanded for five days in connection with a RM500,000 corruption case involving a logging project in the east coast.
In KOTA BARU, the remand order for an engineer of a government-linked company (GLC) was yesterday extended by five days until Wednesday by a magistrate’s court to assist in the investigation into a corruption and abuse of power case...

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