The MACC has hauled up the younger brother of Parti Warisan Sabah president Mohd Shafie Apdal over the alleged siphoning of rural development funds meant for Sabah.
According to Star Online, Hamid Apdal turned up at the Sabah MACC office in Kota Kinabalu at 10am today after the commission failed to locate him when they visited his house last night.
The news portal reported that Hamid is believed to be part of the investigations as authorities look into the skimming of funds through a network of at least 60 companies given rural projects in the state.
Sources told the portal that at least two Sabah assemblypersons and another senator are expected to be called in to give their statements.
Yesterday, a BN component party senator was released after having his statement recorded over the matter, added the report.
Earlier today, two Sabah Umno Youth leaders and a Parti Warisan Sabah (Warisan) Youth chief were remanded for five days pertaining to the case.
Umno Youth information chief Jamawi Jaafar, who is also Tenom Umno Youth chief, and Warisan Youth chief Mohd Azis Jamman were detained at the Sabah MACC headquarters in Kota Kinabalu yesterday, while the third person, Tawau Umno Youth chief Ariffin Kassim, was detained at the graft buster's office in Tawau.
Jamawi is currently serving as a special officer at the Communications and Multimedia Ministry and it is learnt that his arrest was in regard to his tenure as an aide to Mohd Shafie when he was rural and regional development minister.
Mohd Azis was Semporna Umno Youth chief before he left the party and subsequently joined Warisan.
The remand on Warisan vice-president Peter Anthony, who was arrested last Thursday, was also extended to a further three days, from the original five.
The arrests are in connection with funds allegedly misappropriated from projects in Sabah that were supposed to be carried out by the Rural and Regional Development Ministry prior to Shafie's sacking during the cabinet reshuffle in 2015.- Mkini
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