Seven other directors involved in scheme, with four companies implicated, MACC said
A former company manager was arrested last week for allegedly submitting fake employment contracts to apply for foreign worker quotas in 2022, according to reports.
Datuk Azmi Kamaruzaman, Special Operations Division senior director at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, confirmed the arrest to Bernama.
The news outlet previously reported that the man, in his early 40s, was detained last Monday while giving a statement in the MACC office in Putrajaya.
Seven other directors are involved in the scheme, according to the Bernama report, with four companies implicated.
"All of them applied for foreign worker quotas at the Labour Department by submitting suspected false documents, allegedly carried out in 2022 involving 25 fake employment contracts, involving about RM77mil," the source told Bernama.
Kamaruzaman said they are currently finding other individuals to assist in the investigation, which falls under Section 16 of the MACC Act 2009.
The Malaysian government has frozen the entry of foreign workers in the country as it is expected to hit its limit by the end of the year.
