{"id":87580,"date":"2020-08-14T14:19:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T06:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=87580"},"modified":"2020-08-14T14:19:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T06:19:56","slug":"logging-project-three-nabbed-for-alleged-rm3-million-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=87580","title":{"rendered":"Logging project: Three nabbed for alleged RM3 million bribery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 14\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0Three individuals have been detained on suspicion of giving and accepting bribes amounting to RM3 million in relation to a logging project worth more than RM27 million in Pahang, five years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspects aged between 39 and 73 were arrested after they were called to give their statements at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) headquarters in Putrajaya, yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a source, one of the suspects was a former board member while the other two former company directors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe case is related to a logging project take-over in one of the districts in Pahang involving a&nbsp;6,591.67 acres area in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe case is being investigated under Section 16 of the MACC Act 2009,\u201d he told Bernama today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MACC deputy chief commissioner (Operations)\u00a0Datuk Seri Ahmad\u00a0Khusairi Yahaya, when contacted,\u00a0confirmed the arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 14\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0Three individuals have been detained on suspicion of giving and accepting bribes amounting to RM3 million in relation to a logging project worth more than RM27 million in Pahang, five years ago. The suspects aged between 39 and 73 were arrested after they were called to give their statements at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":45620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87580"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}