TAWAU: Three officers attached with the Sabah Water Department have been remanded for four days starting today, to facilitate the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)’s ongoing investigation over a multi-million ringgit graft case.
The trio, aged between 40 and 50, were brought before Magistrate Muhammad Faizal Che Saad, who granted the remand which ends this Sunday.
They were among 19 divisional engineers nabbed by the MACC in a special operation carried out across the state yesterday.
During the operation, commission officers recovered RM2.4 million from some of those who were detained.
They are believed to have amassed large sums of money from projects, and the MACC will be looking into several new documents seized in the ops.
Early this month, the MACC nabbed two senior figures within the State Water Department and two others on suspicion of monopolising government projects to rake in millions from RM3.3 billion worth of federal funded projects to boost the clean water supply in Sabah.
One was released from remand on Oct 16, while the remaining three were released on Monday.
The MACC had on Oct 14 arrested the department's former senior officer, who was released from remand yesterday.