The potty's over: Two Sabah civil servants held in school toilet graft probe

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Two civil servants have been arrested in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah for allegedly accepting bribes of about RM130,000 from contractors in return for upgrading and minor maintenance work on school toilets in a district.   Read more at https://shorturl.at/tPKzC  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Two civil servants have been arrested for allegedly accepting bribes of about RM130,000

00:08from contractors in return for upgrading and minor maintenance work on school toilets in

00:13a district.

00:15The two men in their 50s were detained when they came to the Sabah headquarters of the

00:19Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, MACC, in Kota Kinabalu on Thursday night.

00:26According to the sources, one suspect was remanded until November 21, while the other

00:31was released on MACC bail after giving a statement.

00:35Initial investigations indicated the suspects had demanded bribes amounting to 30% of each

00:41project's value.

00:43According to another source, the MACC also confiscated approximately RM90,000 in cash

00:49and seized two luxury vehicles.

00:52Sabah MACC Director Datuk S. Karunanithi confirmed the arrest, stating that the case

00:57was being investigated under Section 17 Subsection A of the MACC Act 2009.

01:05He did not rule out the possibility of follow-up arrests in the ongoing investigation and urged

01:10any contractor who has given bribes to civil servants to come forward.

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