KUALA LUMPUR – Four more people have been arrested in police investigations into a local airline.
They are two men and two women, all Malaysians, who are aged between 30 and 62, Bernama reported Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director Datuk Seri Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf as saying.
They are a treasury assistant, a finance assistant, a research and development manager, and a lawyer of a company.
Three of them were arrested after giving statements to police at the CCID headquarters in Jalan Tun Razak this afternoon.
The fourth was arrested in Bukit Tunku.
The arrests are in connection with investigations into the co-founder of a local airline, who, along with his wife and son, are being probed under the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001.
It was also reported that police are identifying assets belonging to this co-founder, who has a “Datuk” title”, and his wife and son, as the assets are believed to have been obtained from money-laundering activities.
The trio has since been released after their remand orders expired.
Another suspect, a man in his 40s, was subsequently arrested in Bangsar earlier this week, and items such as luxury handbags, wristwatches, jewellery, laptops, and a CPU were seized.
Also seized were documents on i-Serve Technology, the company of which the local airline co-founder is a shareholder. This company had been fined by Bank Negara Malaysia for operating without a proper licence for accepting deposits. – October 26, 2023