A senior navy officer and a company director are remanded for suspected corruption involving crony company appointments and RM2 million in suspicious deposits.
KUALA LUMPUR: A senior Royal Malaysian Navy officer and a company director have been remanded for seven days over suspected corruption.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) alleges the officer recommended and appointed a crony company for work at his workplace.
The company director is suspected of being an accomplice in the scheme.
Both suspects, aged in their 40s to 50s, were arrested after giving statements at the Ipoh MACC office.
Magistrate A Hafiizh Abu Bakar issued the remand orders at the Ipoh High Court.
The alleged collusion is believed to have occurred between 2017 and 2020.
Preliminary investigations suggest the officer owns property exceeding his total emoluments.
These assets include three houses, three shoplots and two hotels registered under his name.
Suspicious deposits totalling about RM2 million were made into the officer’s personal and company accounts.
MACC Intelligence Division senior director Datuk Saiful Ezral Arifin confirmed the remand.
The case is being investigated under Section 16(a)(b) of the MACC Act 2009.
