Telco CEO gets remanded over RM200k bribe

telecommunication network chief executive officer (CEO) has been remanded for four days from today to assist in investigations over a bribe amounting to more than RM200,000.

The remand order on the 43-year-old man was issued by Magistrate Mohamad Redza Azhar Rezali under Section 16 (a) (A) of the MACC Act 2009.

The man had allegedly solicited and received bribes from a company as an inducement to award a telecommunication tower construction and upgrading project worth almost RM50 million.