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PUTRAJAYA: Two people have been arrested in connection with bribery worth millions of ringgit as part of a syndicate of SMS scams.
The two, a CTO of the company and an employee of a telecommunications company, will be held in custody for five days after Judge Siti Roslizawati Mohd Zanin allowed a request filed by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on Thursday. (12th of November).
The 39- and 47-year-old suspects were arrested around 2:30 p.m. and 5:14 p.m. at MACC headquarters on Wednesday (November 11) when they were called in to have their deposition recorded.
The latest arrest brings the number of people investigated for the scam to six.
According to sources, the two were believed to have given and accepted bribes to protect information and personal data belonging to the telecommunications company’s prepaid customers.
The “content provider” company is known to have used the phone numbers to charge customers via SMS without their knowledge or permission.
Earlier this week, four people were arrested as the MACC proceeded with its investigation into the union’s activities.
On Wednesday, a telecommunications employee was placed in pretrial detention for five days on suspicion of taking bribes to reveal customer numbers to the union.
On Tuesday, three people, including two Datuks, were arrested.
The three were said to be directors of different companies and had apparently been giving bribes to telecommunications companies to access customers’ phone numbers.
They are believed to have bribed telecommunications company officials to obtain their customers’ phone numbers, which is used for a syndicate of “content provider” SMS scams.
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