RM1.6mil in cash seized as MACC detains 5th suspect over Sabah railways issue


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 28 Jan 2018

KOTA KINABALU: A 60-year-old contractor became the fifth person arrested in connection with the broadening Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) probe into the awarding of contracts for a number of Sabah railway projects.

Investigators also seized some RM1.6mil in cash from the house of the contractor as they moved to freeze his accounts, it was learned.

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