KUALA LUMPUR: At least six people were today hauled up in courts nationwide for abuse of power and fraudulent claims amounting to tens of millions of ringgit.
The highest amount recorded in one of the cases saw a series of alleged bogus claims for a dairy cow cluster project in Alor Star.
The suspect remanded was alleged to have siphoned off a shocking RM20 million in bogus claims.
A magistrate's court in the northern state granted a four-day remand order against two men involved in the 2015 project.
Magistrate Nurshahida Abdul Rahim granted the remand application by the state Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for further investigations against the suspects under Section 18 of the MACC Act.
The suspects, a 51-year-old company director and a 52-year-old company owner were remanded following their separate arrests yesterday.
In Kuantan, an employee of a co-operative in Pahang has been remanded for six days to facilitate an investigation over alleged power abuse in a stock investment scheme involving about RM720,000.
The man was arrested yesterday after giving his statement at the MACC office here.
Yesterday, the MACC obtained an order to remand the 40-year-old financial manager and a 49-year-old senior financial executive of the same cooperative for six days in connection with the same case.
The suspects are being investigated under Section 23 of the MACC Act 2009. They are believed to have abused their power to approve the share investment scheme run by the cooperative.
In Kuala Lumpur, three individuals, including a housewife who claimed to be a bankrupt, were charged separately at the Sessions Courts here today with falsifying documents to claim Social Security Organisation (Socso) Penjana Kerjaya's hiring incentives totalling RM123,100.
Housewife, Mazlina Ali, 45; barber, Mohamad Mohamed Amin, 31; and insurance agent, Isa Mohd Ismail, 28; all pleaded not guilty before judges Azura Alwi, Rozina Ayob and Suzana Hussin.
They were charged in separate courtrooms under Section 18 of the MACC Act which can be punished under 24(2) of the same Act.
It carries a maximum jail term of 20 years and a fine of not less than five times the amount received or RM10,000, whichever is higher, upon conviction.