The MACC arrested a former deputy court registrar on suspicion of conspiring to solicit bribes amounting to about RM2 million to help influence an investigation against a businessperson implicated in the Jana Wibawa project.

An MACC source said the male suspect in his 50s is believed to have asked for the bribe as an inducement to get the MACC to tamper with evidence given and make the businessperson a witness instead.

He said the suspect was...