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KUCHING (Aug 7): Betty Chew, wife to Bagan MP Lim Guan Eng, has been arrested after she turned up at the Malaysia Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) office here this morning, her lawyer told the Malay Mail.
“MACC arrested Betty Chew. I am accompanying her to have her statement taken,” said the lawyer, Lee Khai, when contacted by the news portal this afternoon.
He also said that Guan Eng’s sister Lim Hui Ying who had accompanied Chew to the MACC had posted her bail of RM50,000.
A source within the MACC also told Malay Mail that the commission plans to charge Chew and Penang businesswoman Phang Li Koon along with Guan Eng at the Sessions Court here next week.
However, the source who spoke on condition of anonymity could not reveal the details of the possible charges, the report said.
Chew, a former Melaka state lawmaker, was seen entering MACC headquarters here at about 10.45am; while Phang, who was jointly charged with Lim over graft allegations in 2016, was reportedly called in for questioning last night and detained.
This morning, Guan Eng, who was detained by the MACC last night, was charged in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court with soliciting gratification to help a company to secure the Penang undersea tunnel project.
Lim pleaded not guilty to the charge
He was charged, in his capacity as the Chief Minister of Penang then, to have corruptly solicited gratification for himself as an inducement for helping the company to obtain the project.
He is alleged to have sought 10 per cent of the profit to be made by the company from Datuk Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli, who is the company owner.
Lim, who is Bagan Member of Parliament, was charged with committing the offence nearby Hotel The Gardens, Lingkaran Syed Putra, Mid Valley City here in March 2011.
The charge was framed under 16(a)(A) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 and punishable under Section 24 of the same act, which provides imprisonment for up to 20 years and a fine of not less than five times the sum or value of the gratification, or RM10,000, whichever is higher, upon conviction.