KUALA LUMPUR: A company director was remanded for four days until July 21 to help Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) investigations into RM100 million of Employment Recruitment Incentives Programme's (PenjanaKerjaya) false claims and misappropriation.
Sources said the remand was allowed by magistrate Mohd Dinie Shazwan Ab Shukor at the Putrajaya Magistrate's court today.
"The 41-year-old man was arrested with his chief executive officer, a 40-year-old woman in Kuala Lumpur at about 1.30pm yesterday.
"But, she has been released on MACC bail after having her statement recorded. The duo are believed to have submitted employee recruitment training programme invoices that contained fake details to the Social Security Organisation (Perkeso).
"They did this to obtain approximately RM700,000 under the Economic Recovery Plan (Penjana) despite the programme yet to be fully implemented."
MACC senior investigation director Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Hashim confirmed the arrest, and that the case was being investigated under Section 18 of the MACC Act 2009.
He said that the agency might detain more people linked to the case.
On July 14, MACC arrested 37 people in several states in its investigation of the PenjanaKerjaya case. Another three were detained in Johor and Penang the next day.
To date, 42 people, aged 28 to 70, have been arrested under Ops Hire.
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