MACC nabs executive director and son over graft involving RM4mil

MELAKA: Anti-graft officers detained a management team comprising a father and son of an Industrial Skill Development Centre (Misdec) here for allegedly misappropriating the centre’s funds.

Both men were believed to have transferred RM4mil to their personal bank accounts between 2014 and 2015.

They allegedly did this by approving and transferring the funds which were originally channelled to Misdec for the purpose of carrying out industrial training for youths.

A statement from the Malaysian AntiCorruption Commission (MACC) said the 76-year-old father is an executive director and his 43-year-old son a manager of the centre’s administration and finance department.

It added that the amount was transferred to both their personal bank accounts.

The MACC also confiscated RM600,000 from Misdec’a account, and RM350,000 worth of equipment and a four-wheel drive vehicle.

Misdec is an NGO approved by the Human Resources Ministry and Melaka government to provide skills training to youths.

MACC Deputy Chief Commissioner (operation) Datuk Azam Baki confirmed the arrests.

In an unrelated case, a 31-year-old contractor was detained in Seremban yesterday for abetting his government servant wife to obtain two maintenance projects at the Sendayan Horticulture Centre here.

His 34-year-old wife, an assistant agriculture officer at the centre, was arrested on June 6. She allegedly awarded a project to maintain the irrigation system for a herbal project valued at RM10,100 to her husband.

She faces a second charge of awarding her husband another maintenance project at a nursery at the same place costing RM19,900.

The offences were allegedly committed in August last year.