by DayakDaily Team
PETALING JAYA, Jan 16: A former mayor from Sarawak is among four more people detained by the police to facilitate investigations into a money laundering and criminal breach of trust (CBT) case involving a senior executive of a Sarawak broadcasting firm.
According to a report by Free Malaysia Today (FMT), Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain said the four, including two women aged between 53 and 71, were apprehended in Kuching by Bukit Aman’s anti-money laundering criminal investigation team.
He was quoted as saying that the team had first arrested a man and a woman, aged 53 and 62, one of whom is a director of a company, yesterday evening.
“Both of them are on remand for two days. We also seized about 32 company documents,” he said, according to Utusan Malaysia.
The other two, a 67-year-old former mayor in Sarawak and a former general manager of the broadcasting firm, were arrested today.
Bernama reported that remand applications against the former mayor and former general manager would be made tomorrow.
Previously, according to reports by Bernama, police had previously arrested five individuals, including the top management officer of the same broadcasting station, aged between 26 and 62, to assist in the investigation.
One of them was released on police bail while the rest, including the officer’s wife, children and brother-in-law were remanded for further investigation.
The suspects were detained at several locations, including in Penang and Sarawak.
FMT reported that police also seized documents, several vehicles and bank accounts with a total value of more than RM17 million.
It also stated that the information was received regarding suspicious transactions through several bank accounts from 2017 until September 2024.
The modus operandi involved criminal money laundering activities through suspicious financial transactions and offences such as criminal breach of trust, tender fraud, and awarding tenders to oneself or family members.
The case is being investigated under Section 4(1) of the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001, Section 409 of the Penal Code, Section 420 of the Penal Code, Section 403 of the Penal Code, and Section 23 of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009. – DayakDaily
