THREE more Zakat Pulau Pinang (ZPP) officers have been remanded over corruption allegations involving high-ranking officials at the state agency.

The remand for six days until Sunday was granted by magistrate L. Uma Devi at the Penang court complex this afternoon.

The trio,  aged between 33 and 49,  were picked up by the MACC from ZPP’s office yesterday.

MACC had also detained 12 people – four high-ranking ZPP officials, including its chief executive officer and eight contractors – last week.

The remand for the ZPP CEO and one senior officer has been extended until this Thursday.

The other two ZPP officials were released on Sunday on a RM10,000 MACC bond each.

All the contractors were released over the weekend and yesterday morning on a RM5,000 bond each.

Last week, Aziz told the media that preliminary investigation had shown that the individuals had allegedly misused funds worth millions of ringgit by organising programmes before splitting up the profit.

MACC also believed the CEO had allegedly received valuables, money, and cheques from contractors and suppliers in return for awarding certain projects to them.

Aziz said the commission would be hauling up more contractors who had projects with ZPP to assist investigation. – May 16, 2017.