Mosque deputy chairperson remanded in zakat fraud case

A deputy chairperson of a mosque has been remanded for allegedly submitting a fraudulent zakat recipient list to a private welfare body last April.

He is the second suspect to be detained over the case after the mosque chairperson was remanded yesterday.

Magistrate Sharifah Amirda Shasha Amir Shariffuddin issued the 6-day remand order on the man in his 50s after the Terengganu MACC applied for it at the Kemaman Magistrate's Court.

According to a source, the suspect was arrested around noon yesterday after giving his statement at the MACC office in Kemaman.

He is believed to have submitted a false list of eligible zakat recipients, allowing his wife to receive zakat funds.

The remand was granted under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code to assist in investigations under Section 18 of the MACC Act 2009.

Yesterday, Terengganu MACC director Hazrul Shazreen Abd Yazid suggested that further arrests may follow, after the mosque chairperson was detained for similar charges.

The chairperson was also accused of submitting a list that included ineligible recipients, such as his wife, who received RM1,000.

- Bernama

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