ALOR SETAR (Jan 11): A company director and a company owner are in remand for four days from Wednesday for investigation over alleged false claims amounting to millions of ringgit in connection with a dairy cattle farming project in Kedah in 2015.
The remand order against the two men was issued by Magistrate Nurshahida Abdul Rahim following an application by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
According to a MACC source, the 51-year-old company director was arrested at about 1pm on Tuesday at the Kedah MACC Office, while the 52-year-old company owner was arrested at the Simpang Renggam rest and recreation area in Johor at 3pm on Tuesday.
They were arrested to facilitate an investigation over allegations of several companies said to have conspired to submit false claims related to the incentive payment for the RM20.3 million dairy cattle farming project.
The case is being investigated under Section 18 of the MACC Act 2009.
Meanwhile, in Johor Bahru, an owner of a printing company is in remand for seven days from today, also over false claims which amounted to more than RM100,000 two years ago.
The remand order against the 53-year-old man was issued by Magistrate Norkhalida Farhana Abu Bakar. for investigation under Section 18 of the MACC Act 2009.
According to a source, the man was alleged to have submitted false claims in connection with the supply of printed learning modules to a secondary school in 2021.
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