TWO more employees of a public health facility in Seremban were remanded for five days from today for allegedly soliciting and accepting bribes amounting to RM3,500 in return for offering funeral management work for the handling of non-Muslim patients to two companies.

Magistrate Syed Farid Syed issued the remand order against them.

Lawyer Ardelliza Izmaryanti Shafie from the National Legal Aid Foundation represented the suspects, both men in their 30s and 40s.

According to sources, the two suspects were arrested at the Negri Sembilan Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office yesterday following the arrest of four employees of the hospital last Monday over a similar case.

The two suspects are believed to have received bribes from two companies for offering them to do funeral management work for non-Muslim patients who died at the hospital between 2021 and 2022.

Negri Sembilan MACC director Awgkok Ahmad Taufik Putra Awg Ismail, who confirmed the arrest, said the case is being investigated under section 17(a) of the MACC Act 2009.

Last Tuesday, two of the four arrested at the hospital were remanded for six days for allegedly receiving RM11,000, made in 42 bank transactions, from two companies offering funeral management work. – Bernama, September 29, 2023.