Sandakan: A divisional engineer with the Water Department detained by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to facilitate investigations into the RM3.3 billion scandal involving the department was released by the Magistrate's Court, Tuesday. Magistrate Faelly Jeffrey Lanjungan released the 59-year-old on a MACC bail set at RM200,000 undeposited with two local sureties.The suspect was among the 19 engineers who were nabbed on Oct. 20 by the MACC across the State in a second wave of operations and were remanded for seven days.
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Of the 19, five of the 14 engineers who had been remanded since Oct. 20 were released on Monday (Oct. 24) while the rest, except the 59-year-old suspect here, are still being detained for questioning.On Tuesday, it was reported that a senior staff of the department in Tawau was the latest to be hauled up by the MACC to facilitate the on-going investigations on the abuse of Federal projects worth RM3.3 billion in the department.
The 35-year-old was brought before Magistrate Muhammad Faizal Che Saad who granted a five-day remand order, making him the fourth individual from the district so far, to be roped in.
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The other three officers aged between 40 and 50 who were arrested last Thursday were further remanded another five days from Oct 23.
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MACC Deputy Chief Commissioner (Operations) Datuk Azam Baki said the agency seized RM8.4 million in cash from those arrested in the second phase of the operation.
