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Remand extended for Sabah leaders in MACC probe
Published:  Oct 14, 2017 8:18 PM
Updated: 12:45 PM

The two Sabah Umno Youth leaders and Parti Warisan Sabah (Warisan) Youth chief, picked up as part of MACC's investigation into the misappropriation of rural development funds, had their remand periods extended for three days. 

Magistrate Mohd Aizat Abdul Rahim approved the remand extension, according to the New Straits Times.

Two of the three, Umno Youth information chief Jamawi Jaafar and Warisan Youth chief Mohd Azis Jamman, were detained at the Sabah MACC headquarters in Kota Kinabalu on Oct 9.

The third, Tawau Umno Youth chief Ariffin Kassim, was detained at the anti-graft agency’s office in Tawau the same day.

All three were initially handed a five-day remand, despite prosecutors asking for seven days.

Mohd Azis is the second Warisan leader to be arrested in MACC's investigation into the misappropriated funds, following the arrest of deputy vice-president Peter Anthony.

Jamawi, who currently serves in the Communications and Multimedia Ministry, was arrested in relation to his tenure as an aide to Warisan president Mohd Shafie Apdal, when the latter was rural and regional development minister.

MACC is investigating funds allegedly misappropriated from projects in Sabah that were supposed to be carried out by the Rural and Regional Development Ministry.

Shafie's brother Hamid Apdal was also arrested in relation to the probe, and was slapped with a five-day remand, which ends tomorrow.

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