THE Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) will haul up more witnesses in its probe into the RM17 million scandal involving supply of parts for armoured vehicles.

MACC deputy chief commissioner (operations) Azam Baki said the investigation is still in the early stages and it is identifying witnesses.

“This case is still at the early stage and we are looking at calling more witnesses to assist us. How many, I can’t be sure on that,” he said after launching a training programme for anti-graft officers in Kuala Lumpur today.

Yesterday, MACC arrested a company owner for allegedly bribing an agency under the Ministry of Defence in order to secure a procurement contract.

The arrest comes a week after two senior officials of Defence Technology Sdn Bhd (Deftech) were arrested over the same case. 

The suspect, who has been remand for four days until Friday, was arrested around 11pm when he showed up yesterday at the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya to record his statement. 

Prior to this, MACC arrested the two Deftech executives in connection with allegations of bribery from several companies for the contract to supply equipment to AV8 and Adnan armoured-fighting vehicles (AFV) between 2014 and 2017. Deftech is a subsidiary of DRB Hicom. – May 21, 2019.