The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has nabbed eight people on suspicion of falsifying loan documents of a bank in Kota Kinabalu.

Seven of the suspects are bank officers while the other is a former bank officer.

Sabah MACC director Shaharom Nizam Abdul Manap said three of the suspects, aged between 25 and 27, were picked up at the Starbucks 1Borneo Hypermall in Kota Kinabalu between 10.35pm and 10.47pm on Sept 6.

He said they were detained after MACC received a report from a 33-year-old civil servant on Sept 2 at 10.50am, that two bank officers had demanded RM7,000 from him to facilitate his loan application with the bank.

Shaharom Nizam said that in a follow-up operation, a team of MACC officers raided the bank's branch in Kota Kinabalu and in Likas, and the house of one of the bank's personnel in the capital.

"As a result, a number of items were seized, such as a laptop, personal computer, six cellphones, a number of rubber stamps suspected to be fake and the bank's personal loan forms," he said in a statement tonight.

According to Shaharom Nizam, the raid on the three premises and the seizures of numerous items brought the number of arrests involving bank officers to five more, aged between 26 and 29, yesterday.

He said the five men were detained at the Sabah MACC office between 7.47pm and 11.35pm.

Shaharom Nizam said the three individuals detained on Sept 6 were remanded for six days from yesterday, while the five others detained yesterday were remanded for seven days, starting today.

- Bernama