PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) today released a Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) project manager and a renovation contractor who were remanded for five days to facilitate investigations into alleged corruption.
Magistrate Nik Isfahanie Tasnim Wan Ab Rahman allowed the duo, aged 55 and 51, to be released on bail amounting to RM20,000 with one surety each, at the Putrajaya magistrate's court here this morning.
The government-linked company (GLC) employee is believed to have accepted bribes from the contractor for a renovation project in Kuala Lumpur in 2014.
The 55-year-old man had allegedly accepted a BMW 5 Series sedan in exchange for the project.
The contractor, a 51-year-old woman, is the owner of a renovation firm.
Both were arrested by the MACC to assist in a probe into bribery allegations related to a tender to supply goods for renovation of TNB’s offices in Kuala Lumpur.
According to an MACC spokesman, the suspects were detained by an MACC enforcement team in the Klang Valley on May 10.
In his capacity as a project manager, the man allegedly allocated the tender for the project to the contractor who is not under TNB’s panel.
The renovation works are believed to have been carried out in 2014 at several TNB offices in Kuala Lumpur, said the spokesman.