The MACC has arrested a fourth person in connection to the Kampung Gatco issue.
The Sun reported that the 54-year-old businessman, who was also a former bank officer, was remanded for five days at the Putrajaya Magistrate's Court yesterday.
The daily also reported that the same court also extended the remand for two "Datuk" brothers, earlier arrested in relation to the same case, for a further four days from yesterday.
The siblings, aged 54 and 58, were chief executives of two companies in a family-run business group. They were arrested on Monday in the Klang Valley.
Earlier last week, the graft buster had also remanded a 68-year-old liquidator, who is believed to have detailed knowledge on the Kampung Gatco land deal.
The arrests are part of an in-depth probe launched by the anti-graft body on the Gatco issue.
Ensuing raids have seen officers seizing documents from several offices, including the Negeri Sembilan State Secretariat and Negeri Sembilan Development Corporation, as well as the National Union of Plantation Workers (NUPW) and Thamarai Holdings Sdn Bhd.
The settlers of Kampung Gatco, which has since been renamed Kampung Serampang Indah, are involved in a legal tussle with Thamarai holdings Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of the Lotus Group, over the land in Bahau, Negeri Sembilan.
They were part of the Great Alonioners Trading Corporation Bhd (Gatco), which was incorporated in 1977 by the NUPW to facilitate a land development scheme for NUPW members in Bahau.
A total of 430 families took part in the scheme, comprising 200 Indians, 120 Malays and 30 Chinese and the current settlers had paid RM7,600 each as a deposit to settle on allocated plots of the land as part of the development scheme.
However, the scheme failed.
Gatco eventually wound up, but its liquidators sold the land to Thamarai Holdings in 2006, triggering the present tussle.
The tug-of-war between the developers and settlers has seen arrests of many of them, as well as that of politicians and NGO members who intervened to champion the settlers' rights.
