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The two directors of the company are accompanied by MACC personnel in court.
KUCHING: Two company directors have been placed in pre-trial detention for two days to facilitate investigations by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) into the allegation of making false claims related to a road project worth RM 800 million in Sarawak.
The men, 42 and 44, were detained yesterday during a special operation here.
It is understood that the men, with the title ‘Datuk’, are being investigated under Section 16 (b), 17 (a) and Section 18 of the MACC Act of 2009, in relation to 10 improvement works of roads in Miri, Kapit. , Ba Kelalan, Limbang and Belaga.
The two directors of the company were represented in the Court of First Instance here today by four lawyers Shankar Ram, Albert Tang, Lim Heng Choo, Allan Lao and Lin Wina Kiew, while Deputy Prosecutor (DPP) S. Thangávelu acted on their behalf of the prosecution.
When he met after the pre-trial application procedure, Tang said the DPP had requested a seven-day pre-trial detention, but Magistrate Zubaidah Sarkawi gave the MACC two days to complete its investigations.
The MACC in a statement yesterday said the projects were carried out under the Jiwa Murni program of the Defense Ministry.
MACC Deputy Commissioner (Operations) Datuk Seri Ahmad Khusairi Yahaya, confirming the arrests, said the investigation of the case was carried out with the cooperation of the Defense Ministry after an internal audit exposed the flaws of the projects.
The directors, both 44 years old, were proprietary partners of three companies that were awarded the project, which was awarded by the ministry to the company from 2010 to 2016.
MACC claimed that the roads were not built according to the standards of the Department of Public Works.
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