KOTA BARU: Three more senior officers of the Kemubu Agriculture Development Authority (Kada), including its general manager, were arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) today on suspicion of receiving bribes.
Sources said all three men were detained when they were summoned to the Kelantan MACC headquarters to have their statement recorded.
The three, aged between 40 and 49, were detained separately between 7.15pm and 8pm.
"Their arrest were made following the arrest of a senior Kada officer on May 1 for allegedly making false claims for various Kada programmes," said the sources.
Kelantan MACC director Rosli Husain, when contacted, confirmed the arrest.
He said MACC would obtainn remand order against the three men tomorrow to facilitate investigations into the case under Section 17 (a) of the MACC Act 2009.
On May 1, state MACC nabbed a Kada senior officer, in his 40s, for allegedly making false claims for the agency,'s programmes.
He was allegedly to have made the false claims between last year to early this year. The man has been remanded for six days to assist MACC's investigation into the case.