Authorities have arrested the second person in three days over the mounting allegations of misconduct surrounding sovereign development fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
Investigators working under the auspices of the Federal Government’s Special Task Force secured a five-day remand order for Dr Shamsul Aznwart Sulaiman, the managing director of Ihsan Perdana Sdn Bhd, the company tasked with handling 1MDB’s corporate social responsibility programmes.
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) deputy prosecutor Ahmad Sazilee Abdul Khairi told The Malay Mail Online‘s Zurairi AR the 54-year old was picked up by task force officials at The Curve shopping mall in Damansara ysterday evening.
“After he was found, we brought him to our office. We arrested him at the office,” Ahmad Sazilee said.
Yesterday it was reported that a 39-year old director of a construction and property development company was arrested on Monday over links to suspected wrongdoing in the 1MDB case.
The Malaysian Insider reported that sources close to the investigation said the suspect’s company had dealings with SRC International Sdn Bhd, a company linked to 1MDB.
Umno-linked lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, who represents the man, told The Star Online that his client had been remanded for four days over “national interest”.
“They asked for seven days but the magistrate allowed for four days only,” he was quoted as saying by the news portal.
1MDB itself issued a statement yesterday evening stating that the man under arrest was not an employee of 1MDB.
“No 1MDB employees are under remand,” the statement read. 1MDB also reiterated its earlier commitment to cooperate in ongoing investigations.
