MELAKA: Six women were remanded for four days starting today to facilitate an investigation into a false claims case involving the sum of RM13,586.
Magistrate Nabilah Nizam granted the remand order against the women following an application submitted by the Melaka Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) at the magistrate's court in Ayer Keroh here this morning.
Meanwhile, state MACC director Adi Supian Shafie said all suspects, aged 40 to 57, who are civil servants, were arrested between 2pm and 4pm yesterday when they appeared at the state MACC Office.
"They are remanded to assist the investigation in relation to submitting documents with false details, which is the Population and Housing Census of Malaysia 2020: Enumerators Daily Work Progress Record for a total of RM13,586, to the Finance Unit in the said government department in 2020," he said in a statement.
He said these claims were submitted for payment, purportedly to compensate MySTEP personnel, even though these individuals were not employed to conduct the census.
He added that the case is being investigated under Section 18 of the MACC Act 2009, which provides for a fine of five times the value of the bribe or RM10,000, whichever is higher.