KOTA BARU: The four individuals arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on May 15 over a probe into a failed tube wells project in the state have been released on bail.
Magistrate Rais Imran Hamid allowed them to be released after their three-day remand order ended today.
The remand order against the four began on May 16.
The magistrate also ordered the four to be released on RM10,000 bail with one surety each.
He also ordered that they report themselves at the state MACC office once a month.
On Thursday, two former senior officers of a Kelantan water company and two owners of a company that acted as consultants for the project were remanded at the magistrate's court here to assist the MACC's probe into the case.
MACC detained the four, aged between 40 to 60, in separate locations in Kota Baru on Wednesday.
The arrests came after the New Straits Times reported on the plight of villagers in Kota Baru who had been struggling with water supply.
Following the arrest, MACC chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki confirmed that MACC was investigating 10 tube well projects by state-owned water company Air Kelantan Sdn Bhd (AKSB) that failed to function.
He said the projects, worth some RM300 million, were carried out by AKSB between 2008 and 2015.
In total, he said, 28 tube wells were constructed under the horizontal collector well (HCW) and the repair of water treatment plants project.
Azam also confirmed the arrest of four people in connection with the investigation into the construction of the tube well projects in Kelantan which failed to supply water to the residents.
"The tube wells built by the company should supply raw water to the water treatment plant before it is distributed to consumers.
"The construction of HCWs of different capacities is an alternative to overcome the water problem in the state, especially during the dry season.
"However many of the tube wells that were built failed to produce the quantity of water at an optimum level," he said.