ALOR STAR: Two more Road Transport Department (JPJ) officers have been arrested by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for their ‘insider’s role’ in a syndicate that sold scrapped luxury cars brought in from Singapore.
The duo — aged 32 and 29 — were arrested at the Petaling Jaya JPJ office on Thursday and brought to the Alor Setar Court for remand yesterday. The two, an assistant enforcement officer and an administration assistant, have been remanded until Sept 29.
State MACC director Datuk Mohd Fauzi Mohamad confirmed the arrests, which were the result of follow-up operations under ‘Ops Piang’ conducted by the Putrajaya MACC headquarters in Kedah, Kuantan and Kuala Lumpur since Tuesday.
On the first day of the operation, MACC officers detained a 31-year-old female JPJ administration assistant and her husband, who is a factory worker and used car salesman, in Kulim.
A 32-year-old car salesman from Kuantan and a 33-year-old online businessman from Kuala Lumpur were also arrested in connection with the case.
MACC Intelligence Division director Datuk Seri Ahmad Khusairi Yahaya had then said that the syndicate used agents to promote the luxury cars through social media, especially Facebook, and sold them at cheap prices with guarantees of ‘legal’ documents.
“False documents from Puspakom, the Chemistry Department and the Customs Department were used to ‘legalise’ the cars,” he said.
All the suspects have been remanded for further investigations.
