ALOR STAR – Twenty-five companies have been identified as being involved in submitting bank statements with false information to a waste management company here in 2018 and 2019.
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) sources said all the companies were alleged to have committed the offence to enable them to secure contracts for the collection of solid waste and management of public cleaning in the northern region worth over RM60 million from the waste management company.
He said 25 individuals had also been arrested in Bangi, Selangor, and at the Kedah MACC office over the past two days for alleged involvement in the cases, 17 of them remanded to facilitate investigations.
“Most of them were company owners, directors, and managers aged between 31 and 77.
“MACC is still on the hunt for other suspects,” he told reporters here today.
Kedah MACC director Datuk Shaharom Nizam Abd Manap confirmed the matter, saying that the cases were being investigated under Section 18 of the MACC Act 2009. – Bernama, January 12, 2022
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