Company director loses RM1mil in fake plantation tender in Ipoh, lorry driver arrested

MELAKA: A 68-year-old director of a company was fleeced by a lorry driver of RM1mil after he was convinced to bid in a tender for two non-existent oil palm plantations.

Melaka police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Zainol Samah said the victim had first received a call from the 39-year-old lorry driver who identified himself as "Neliar" in June last year, where the latter offered to assist in the tender processes of procuring the plantations.