PETALING JAYA: Investigations into illegal farming in Cameron Highlands revealed that a Bangladeshi owns a RM500,000 stake in a company implicated in such activities, said the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.
Commenting on the arrest of two more vegetable farmers as well as the Bangladeshi yesterday, MACC deputy chief commissioner Datuk Seri Shukri Abdull said the Bangladeshi, 42, had been in the country for 10 years and is believed to have bribed several officials “to look the other way” on illegal land clearing.
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