The suspect (head covered) being led out of the Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
TAWAU: A 37-year-old female assistant enforcement officer from the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism (KPDNKK) was remanded for seven days by the Magistrate’s Court here for soliciting RM1,000.
Registrar Puspawati Sangut allowed the remand application starting yesterday to facilitate investigation under Section 17(a) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act which provides a fine five times the amount solicited or RM10,000 fine and twenty years’ imprisonment.
The suspect was detained at Tawau MACC office at 4.15 pm on Wednesday following a report made on August 29, stating that on August 15 at about 5 pm, the suspect had solicited RM1,000 from the complainant as inducement to release a boat and engine seized by KPDNKK for smuggling ten cooking gas cylinders.
An amount of RM500 was paid to the suspect on the same day and the balance of RM500 to be paid at the end of the month.
Prosecuting officer Muhammad Noor Zam Zam Maidin from MACC prosecuted the case while the suspect was not represented.