PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) detained a journalist from a local news portal at a hotel in Shah Alam, Selangor, at about 11 pm yesterday to assist in an investigation into a bribery case.
MACC chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki, when contacted by Bernama, said the arrest was related to a bribery allegation and not any news report written by the male journalist.
“The journalist is believed to have asked a foreign worker agent for RM20,000 to stop publishing an article on migrant smuggling,” he said.
The journalist has been remanded for four days starting today, and the case is being investigated under Section 16 of the MACC Act 2009.
Today, a news portal reported that one of its journalists has been detained by the MACC.
