A PKR member has been remanded for a day to assist in a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s investigation into the drastic increase in the number of voters in Sarawak’s Julau division, said reports.

PKR’s Julau MP Larry Sng also confirmed that he has been contacted by the MACC by phone over the matter. A MACC team also raided his office in Julau.

Earlier, a MACC team had also visited PKR’s headquarters as part of its investigation into the sharp hike in party membership leading into the ongoing party polls.

The Julai division reportedly saw a drastic increase from 603 members on June 26 to 13,000 a day later.

MACC deputy chief commissioner (operations) Azam Baki, meanwhile, had said operations were conducted on October 25 over allegations of vote-buying in various states during PKR’s party polls.

As part of its investigation, a PKR division chief had been arrested and remanded for a day.

FreeMalaysiaToday reported that the man was arrested at 9pm yesterday in Kuala Lumpur.

“He is in the Kuala Lumpur PKR central leadership council. He is being investigated in connection with a Julau PKR member’s complaint,” a source was quoted as saying.

Sarawak PKR information chief Vernon Kedit had lodged a report with the MACC on October 25, urging the agency to probe into dubious registrations of Julau PKR members.

Sarawak PKR secretary Nicholas Bawin had said then that because their grouses were being ignored by the party, they were left with no choice but to take the matter to the MACC. 

PKR members in Sarawak will be the last to go to the polls on November 10. – November 3, 2018.