KUALA TERENGGANU: Two enforcement agency senior officers have been remanded for five days to assist in investigations after allegedly being involved in facilitating the release of three men linked to a drug case.
Also remanded for four days is the 36-year-old wife of one of the officers.
The remand order against all three suspects was issued by Kuala Terengganu Court assistant registrar Yuhanis Mohd Roslan.
The investigation is being conducted under Section 16(a)(B) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 involving the 36-year-old husband and wife duo and another suspect aged 41.
Earlier, all of them were detained between 2pm and 5.30pm on Sunday while providing statements at the Terengganu MACC office.
The three suspects allegedly solicited and accepted bribes totalling RM30,000 from an individual in exchange for releasing the suspects that were detained under the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.
The incident occurred in 2021 when the two senior enforcement officers were stationed in a district in Terengganu.
The alleged bribe money is also suspected to have been used by one of the suspects, now stationed in a district in Kedah, and his wife for online gambling investments.
MACC investigations found that the money was initially believed to have been deposited into a third-party account before being transferred to the suspect's wife's account.
The three suspects were represented by lawyer Muhamad Ramlam Taib, while the remand application was handled by MACC investigators.