Three local authority staff held over alleged RM25,000 graft in Terengganu
The suspects, comprising two men and a woman in their 40s and 50s, were detained at 2.30pm yesterday when they turned up at the Terengganu MACC office to have their statements recorded.
Magistrate Yuhanis Mohd Roslan granted a six-day remand order after the MACC filed an application at the Kuala Terengganu magistrate's court this morning.
A source said the trio are believed to have committed the offences between 2015 and 2019.
"They are suspected of receiving various sums totalling RM25,000, channelled into their personal bank accounts via fund transfers from a private company," the source said.
The arrests were made following the detention of a government agency director in January over a separate RM900,000 graft case.
Terengganu MACC director Hazrul Shazreen Abd Yazid, when contacted, confirmed the arrests and said the case is being investigated under Section 17(a) of the MACC Act 2009.
He said more arrests may follow as investigations progress.
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