SIX employees of a bank were remanded for seven days from today, accused of soliciting and accepting bribes between 2018 and 2002 from applicants of personal loans totalling RM18 million.

The remand order was issued by Magistrate Raja Noor Adilla Raja Mahyaldin following an application by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

The suspects, all men aged between 36 and 45 and working at branches in the Klang Valley, were arrested by the MACC yesterday.

According to an MACC source, the agency believes the men solicited and received bribes of 15-35% of the loan value for 110 personal loans, worth about RM18 million.

Following their arrest, the MACC also confiscated about RM69,000 in cash, several luxury watches and mobile phones from their homes in Selangor and Putrajaya. – June 9, 2021.