GUA MUSANG – Police arrested the assistant accountant of a government agency here for having allegedly squirrelled away RM24.8 million since 2016.
Kelantan police chief Datuk Muhamad Zaki Harun said that after receiving a report on the matter Friday, they arrested the 37-year-old male suspect, who is an assistant accountant at the agency.
“Police received a report related to the criminal breach of trust committed by the civil servant in a government agency over the loss of government money managed by its finance division from the trust and development funds.
“A preliminary investigation found that the suspect committed the crime from 2016 to May 2023.
“The suspect made 194 money transactions from the accounts of the development and trust funds belonging to the government agency and transferred the monies into the account of a company owned by him (the suspect), which totalled RM24,800,189.73,” he said in a statement yesterday.
Zaki said that following these findings, the suspect was picked up from his house just after midnight on Friday.
“The suspect was remanded for seven days, starting yesterday, until June 2, for further investigations under Section 408 of the Penal Code,” he said. – Bernama, May 28, 2023
