{"id":1655,"date":"2022-02-24T02:33:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T02:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2022-02-24T02:33:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T02:33:55","slug":"ktmb-contracts-company-director-gets-seven-day-remand-for-alleged-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/2022\/02\/24\/ktmb-contracts-company-director-gets-seven-day-remand-for-alleged-bribery\/","title":{"rendered":"KTMB contracts: Company director gets seven-day remand for alleged bribery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24\u00a0(Bernama) &#8212;\u00a0A company director has been remanded for seven days from today, to facilitate investigations into a RM2 million bribery case involving Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) officials,\u00a0in\u00a02016 and 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remand order was granted by the Magistrate&#8217;s Court here after the remand application was made by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a source from\u00a0MACC,\u00a0the 63-year-old man was detained at the MACC Kuala Lumpur office at 3.10pm yesterday when he was there to give his statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man&nbsp;is believed to have bribed officials of&nbsp;Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) as an inducement to help his company secure railroad construction and port development&nbsp;contracts in the Songkhla region in Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kedah MACC director Datuk Shaharom Nizam Abd Manap&nbsp;who confirmed the arrest&nbsp;also informed that the case was being investigated under&nbsp;Section 17 (a) of the MACC Act 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24\u00a0(Bernama) &#8212;\u00a0A company director has been remanded for seven days from today, to facilitate investigations into a RM2 million bribery case involving Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) officials,\u00a0in\u00a02016 and 2017. The remand order was granted by the Magistrate&#8217;s Court here after the remand application was made by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,67,33],"tags":[444,217,443],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-business","category-crime","category-malaysia-news","tag-bribery","tag-corruption","tag-ktmb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}