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PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia’s Anti-Corruption Commission has made its 17th arrest in the case of an alleged bribery worth millions of ringgit as part of an SMS scam syndicate.
A former head of customer service for a telecommunications company has been in custody for five days to help with the investigation.
Judge Siti Roslizawati Mohd Zanin approved a request submitted by MACC prosecutors filed on Wednesday (November 18).
The 46-year-old woman was detained at the commission’s headquarters around 11 p.m. Tuesday when she was called to give her statement.
The union is said to have given bribes to several employees of the telecommunications company in exchange for private data and information belonging to customers using the company’s prepaid plan.
It emerged that the phone numbers were later used by the “content provider” company to charge customers via SMS without their knowledge or permission.
The case is being investigated under Section 16 of the MACC Act of 2009.
Meanwhile, three people, including a telecommunications company staff member who was previously in custody for the case, were released on bail.
The former head of customer service for the telecommunications company was sent to remand for five days from today to assist in the investigation of corruption cases related to SMS fraud syndicates. pic.twitter.com/4iYMMK2qOv
– BERNAMA (@bernamadotcom) November 18, 2020
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