PUTRAJAYA – A senior sales officer with a telecommunications company has been remanded for five days starting today to facilitate investigation into a corruption case involving a short messaging system fraud syndicate.
So far, 18 individuals, including two with “Datuk” titles, have been remanded since November 10 for suspicion of involvement in the case.
The remand order was issued by magistrate Shah Wira Abdul Halim here after allowing the application of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) today.
According to an MACC source, the 37-year-old woman was arrested at the MACC headquarters here at about 7.30pm yesterday after giving her statement.
The remanded individuals are believed to have offered and accepted bribes to obtain personal information of the company’s prepaid customers.
The telephone numbers obtained were allegedly used by a content provider fraud syndicate to charge subscriptions via SMS without the knowledge and agreement of customers, the source said.
The case is being investigated under Section 16 of the MACC Act 2009. – Bernama, November 19, 2020
