Appeals court overturns High Court decision that MACC must use its own act to remand suspects

PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal on Tuesday (Aug 15) overturned a decision made by the Temerloh High Court which had barred the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) officers from using the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) to remand suspects for further investigations.

Instead, the court’s three-man bench comprising Justices Datuk Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera, Datuk Azman Abdullah and Datuk Azmi Ariffin allowed the MACC’s appeal to set aside the decision of the then judicial commissioner Roslan Mat Nor (Now High Court judge) that the commission must rely on its own MACC Act 2009 to apply for remand of suspects after its investigation did not complete within 24 hours after the arrest of the suspects.