{"id":4298,"date":"2011-01-08T06:42:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T22:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2011\/01\/macc-moves-in-on-rm2635mil-telco-bribery-probe\/"},"modified":"2013-07-20T16:05:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T08:05:42","slug":"macc-moves-in-on-rm2635mil-telco-bribery-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/macc-moves-in-on-rm2635mil-telco-bribery-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"MACC moves in on RM263.5mil telco bribery probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KUALA LUMPUR<\/strong>: Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers  have seized several documents and files from both Telekom Malaysia (TM)  and a company linked to Alcatel Lucent (ALU) in connection with alleged  bribes that led to the award of a US$85mil (RM263.5mil) contract several  years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with the investigation said the  officers seized the files while recording statements from several TM and  ALU staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least three more ALU staff members are expected to be interviewed within the next 24 hours,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>They  also said initial investigations showed no top TM executive was  involved in any shady dealing and that others could have had a hand in  the matter.<\/p>\n<p>They said the investigations would take time as the  MACC was looking at all transactions, including TM\u2019s system and  procedures in calling for tenders.<\/p>\n<p>It is learnt that at least  three MACC officers met with a top ALU team comprising its country head  and officials from the finance and legal departments.<\/p>\n<p>They were  at the ALU office in Wisma Denmark here on Tuesday and Wednesday, and  left with several boxes of documents, a source said.<\/p>\n<p>The MACC  started investigations when the US Securities and Exchange Commission  and Justice Department fined ALU US$137mil (RM420.6mil) for a global  bribery case.<\/p>\n<p>Two Malaysians were alleged to have received  kickbacks amounting to some US$700,000 (RM2.1mil) for their alleged part  in assisting ALU obtain the contract.<\/p>\n<p>Following the revelation,  both TM and Axiata Group Bhd jointly appointed KPMG Corporate Services  Sdn Bhd as forensic accountants to help in an internal probe. <\/p>\n<p>Berita seumpamanya:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2010\/12\/macc-to-check-report-on-alcatel-lucent\/\"> MACC to check report on Alcatel-Lucent <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2010\/12\/alcatel-bayar-rasuah-kepada-pegawai-kerajaan-malaysia\/\">Alcatel bayar rasuah kepada pegawai kerajaan Malaysia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers have seized several documents and files from both Telekom Malaysia (TM) and a company linked to Alcatel Lucent (ALU) in connection with alleged bribes that led to the award of a US$85mil (RM263.5mil) contract several years ago. Sources familiar with the investigation said the officers seized the files [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}