KOTA KINABALU: Two state government officials, including a retired officer, have been arrested by anti-graft investigators probing the evasion of millions of ringgit worth of Sabah's crude palm oil sales tax.
The duo - a senior official with the state Finance Ministry and a retired senior officer - were believed to have received RM700,000 in bribes from a palm oil mill in Lahad Datu to "overlook" the mill's falsification of the quantity of crude palm oil produced to evade state taxes worth about RM2mil a month since 2015.
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