TNB project manager detained for allegedly receiving BMW

PUTRAJAYA: A Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) project manager was detained today by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for allegedly receiving a BMW 5-series car from an office equipment supplier over a work contract granted by the latter.
Sources said the 55-year-old TNB manager and the 51-year-old supplier were both detained about 1.50am here.
It is learnt that the manager had allegedly received the vehicle as an inducement after he awarded the supplier with a renovation contract of a TNB office in Kuala Lumpur in 2014.
Both men were taken by MACC investigators to court here in the morning where magistrate Nik Isfahanie Tasnim Wan Abd Rahman issued a five-day remand order to facilitate the probe on them.
MACC deputy commissioner (operations) Datuk Azam Baki confirmed the arrests.
In a separate case in Alor Star, two contractors aged 53 and 37 held on Tuesday by the Kedah MACC for alleged corruption involving the issuance expatriate work permits were remanded for a week today.
On Monday, two senior immigration officers of the Padang Besar branch were arrested by the MACC for allegedly taking bribes for the approval of the permits.
They were found to have allegedly amassed over RM20 million.
The MACC also froze fixed deposits and seized luxury vehicle including a high-powered motorcycle and designer accessories worth RM2 million in the operation.
Both officers were remanded for a week.