ANTI-GRAFT investigators will apply for a remand order for Parti Warisan Sabah president Shafie Apdal later today.

The former rural and regional development minister is currently being treated for high blood pressure at Queen Elizabeth Hospital II in Kota Kinabalu where he was admitted after being arrested last night.

His blood pressure spiked during the more than three hours of questioning by Sabah Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers. 

A quarrel ensued between Shafie’s lawyer and party secretary-general Lorreto Padua Jr and MACC when the agency insisted that Shafie be kept at Kepayan Prison, instead of being taken to hospital.

Warisan deputy president Darell Leiking slammed MACC for being secretive over its unpredictable actions.

“So, we (Warisan) have been told the remand might be at 2.30pm today. But we are just standing by because we don’t want a repeat over what happened when they arrested our Youth chief (Azis Jamman) when suddenly they moved the court time to 11.30am, from 2.30pm,” he told The Malaysian Insight this morning.

Shafie’s supporters are expected at the Kota Kinabalu High Court later, as he is also celebrating his 60th birthday today.

Last night, there were close to 100 of supporters at the Sabah MACC officers.

Shafie’s remand is to facilitate MACC’s probe into the alleged embezzlement of RM1.5 billion to carry out rural development projects in Sabah from 2009 to 2015 when he was a federal minister.

Sources have told The Malaysian Insight that MACC plans to question Shafie over at least 70 projects. – October 20, 2017.