KUANTAN: Five people, including three officers of the state water management company, have been remanded for four days to assist investigations into graft and abuse of power in a RM23 million project.
The five, aged between 35 and 51, were ordered remanded by magistrate Syarifah Nor Syuhada Tuan Mamat.
They were brought to court about 9.15am, having been arrested by state Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers between 3.50pm and 10.40pm on Sunday.
The five are being investigated under sections 16(b)(A) and 17(a) of the MACC Act.
They were detained on suspicion of colluding with seven people, including the chief executive officer and three senior officers of the company, who were detained on Thursday for allegedly trying to create a monopoly over state water supply projects in Pahang.
At the same time, MACC also applied to have the remand orders on the earlier seven suspects extended.
Syarifah Nor Syuhada ordered the remand on the seven extended by three days.
All the suspects, represented by counsels Datuk Syed Azimal Amir Syed Abu Bakar, Zamri Idrus and Datuk Davis Yee Fei Churn, are being investigated under Section 17(a) of the MACC Act.
It is understood that the issue has been going on since 2014.