PUTRAJAYA: Two individuals, including a senior officer of a telecommunications company (telco), have been remanded to assist in an investigation involving fraud using short messaging service (SMS).
Magistrate Siti Roslizawati Mohd Zanin issued the remand order, for five days beginning today, against the two men, following an application by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
This brings to six, the number of people, who are now in remand in connection with the case.
According to a source in MACC, the senior officer, aged 39, and a 47-year-old telco officer were arrested at the MACC headquarters yesterday after giving their statements.
The two men were believed to have given and accepted bribes for the purpose of obtaining personal information on telco customers using prepaid plans.
The mobile numbers are then used by syndicates who charge subscription fees for content via the SMS without the customer’s knowledge and consent, he said.
Yesterday, a telco officer, aged 49, was issued a remand order for five days allegedly for receiving RM300,000 in stages through his personal account from a company in return for divulging the list of customers using prepaid mobile services.
A day earlier, two Datuks were among three company directors, remanded for five days for allegedly giving bribes amounting to millions of ringgit to telco officials to divulge customer details. - FMT
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