Kuala lumpur: A company director has been remanded for two days over allegations of bribing the former chief operating officer (COO) of a statutory body with renovations worth about RM300,000 in exchange for helping secure renovation projects from the agency.

According to BERNAMA News Agency, the remand order, effective today, was issued by Magistrate Ezrene Zakariah after an application by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) at the Magistrate's Court there this morning.

A source said the suspect, a man in his 50s, was arrested at about 7.30 pm yesterday when he turned up at the MACC headquarters to give his statement. Initial investigations found that the suspect is believed to have committed the offenses between 2014 and 2018. He allegedly provided bribes in the form of renovation works on four houses belonging to the former COO, with the total value estimated at about RM300,000.

The remand followed an investigation by a special task force set up to examine the findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) report on Tabung Haji, which was made public through the official portal of the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM) on July 29.

Meanwhile, MACC chief commissioner Datuk Seri Abd Halim Aman confirmed the arrest when contacted, saying the case is being investigated under Section 16 of the MACC Act 2009.