Three company directors remanded over SMS scam case

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PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has remanded three company directors on suspicion of giving bribes worth millions of ringgit as part of a SMS scam syndicate.

Magistrate Shah Wira Abdul Halim ordered the three men, aged 41 to 48, to be held under MACC remand until Nov 14 to facilitate investigations.

The three arrived at the Putrajaya court around 11am on Tuesday Nov 10) clad in the MACC orange garb bearing the words “Lokap SPRM” .According to a source, the three suspects were arrested at the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya between 9pm to 11pm on Monday after they came to give their statement. The source added that three were directors of different companies and had apparently been giving bribes to telecommunication companies to gain access to customers’ phone numbers.

“The directors are believed to have bribed officers at telecommunication companies to obtain phone numbers of their customers, which is used for a ‘content provider’ SMS scam syndicate.The case is being investigated under Section 16 of the MACC Act.

 

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“The three arrived at the Putrajaya court around 11am on Tuesday Nov 10) clad in the MACC orange garb bearing the words “Lokap SPRM” (MACC lock-up).”. How about the RM2.6b case?

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