PUTRAJAYA: Three people, including a corporation chief executive with a "Datuk" title, who were remanded in a graft probe over the misappropriation of government funds amounting to RM40mil have been released on bail. Magistrate Mohd Dinie Shazwan Ab Shukor set RM100,000 as bail with two sureties each, for the Datuk, aged 58, and a corporation secretary, 34, as applied by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission. The third person, a company director, aged 38, was released on RM28,000 bail with two sureties. On Sept 13, the MACC detained four individuals in connection with the case involving funds which should have been channelled to a corporation for skills training programmes for the jobless. The case is being investigated under Section 17(a) of the MACC Act 2009.

Source: The Star September 22, 2017 06:00 UTC