Parti Warisan Sabah president Mohd Shafie Apdal was hospitalised late last night for high blood pressure after he was questioned and arrested by MACC.
“His blood pressure was really high.
“That’s why he was admitted to the hospital, even though the MACC officers were trying to detain him at the Kepayan police headquarters lock-up, which we totally objected to,” Warisan vice-president Junz Wong told Malaysiakini.
Shafie had been arrested by MACC around 9pm, more than four hours after presenting himself for questioning at the commission's office in Kota Kinabalu yesterday.
However, a subsequent medical check-up revealed that his blood pressure was high.
An argument broke out between Shafie’s lawyer and MACC officers over the former Umno minister’s hospitalisation, Wong claimed, as the lawyer wanted to “fight for (Shafie’s) rights.”
“At last, he was admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital II,” he said.
Shafie was admitted to the hospital around 11pm, Wong noted, adding that the 60-year-old's condition was better but still weak as of last night, and that the remand application would still proceed today.
Shafie, who was formerly the rural and regional development minister, was arrested in relation to the RM1.5 billion allegedly siphoned from allocations meant for rural projects in Sabah over a six-year period.
MACC is probing some 60 companies that were awarded projects for the supply of water, electricity and roads in rural Sabah. Shafie has denied involvement in the scandal.
Two of Shafie’s brothers, Hamid and Yusof, have also been arrested in relation to the case.
The graftbusters also detained a former aide of Shafie's, Umno Youth information chief Jamawi Jaafar, as well as two Warisan leaders, including vice-president Peter Anthony.- Mkini
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