Senior YaPEIM director remanded 5 days over CBT probe (Updated)

KUALA LUMPUR: A senior director of the Islamic Economic Development Foundation (YaPeim) was detained by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission for investigations on an alleged misappropriation RM223,000 belonging to the organisation.
The 47-year-old man, held on Tuesday, was remanded for five days from today for criminal breach of trust (CBT).
Sources said the suspect had allegedly conspired with a former deputy president of the foundation in 2015 and siphoned the sum which they purportedly claimed was allocated for 1,000 poor people and 24 households in Rompin.
However, investigators learnt there was not a single recipient who received cash from the supposed fund.
It is learnt that the suspect had submitted names and MyKad details of non-existent people or the dead as recipients before initiating the programme.
MACC director of investigations Datuk Simi Abdul Ghani confirmed the arrest but declined to elaborate.
It was not the first time YaPeim officials were hauled up for questioning over alleged abuse of power and misappropriation of funds.
In October 2015, the foundation's top officials were summoned for questioning over alleged siphoning of funds meant for those displaced in massive floods, said to be the worst ever to hit Kelantan in 2014, leaving over 200,000 homeless.
Another police report was also lodged by a whistleblower non-governmental organisation against the foundation alleging over RM400,000 allocated for an orphanage was used to fund a work and recreational trip of a minister to the USA.