KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has remanded a female civil servant suspected of abusing her position to secure school logistics supply contracts worth RM270,000 for her husband's company.
According to an MACC source, the remand order was granted by magistrate Irza Zulaikha Rohanuddin for seven days following an application made at the Putrajaya magistrate's court this morning.
The suspect, who is in her 40s, was detained at 7pm yesterday when she arrived at the MACC headquarters to provide a statement.
"Preliminary investigations suggest that the suspect, employed at a school in the Klang Valley, allegedly used her position to facilitate the awarding of logistics supply contracts worth approximately RM270,000 to her husband's company between 2021 and 2022," the source said.
Meanwhile, MACC Investigation Division senior director Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Hashim when contacted, confirmed the arrest and said that the case was being investigated under Section 23 of the MACC Act 2009.