By Neville Spykerman - The Malaysian Insider
SHAH ALAM, Feb 4 — Seven people today claimed trial to charges of corruption in connection with illegal sand mining in Selangor at the Sessions Court here.
The accused include a police inspector, government servants and a housewife.
They were picked up in three separate Malaysian Anti Corruption Comission (MACC) investigations and were charged before Sessions Court judge Mat Ghani Abdullah.
The MACC had detained 34 people in five states as part of its probe into illegal sand-mining. Those detained included two politicians and civil servants, for allegedly accepting bribes of cash and sexual favours.
With the arrests, the anti-graft body said it believed it had dismantled a syndicate involved in smuggling sand to a neighbouring country.
Among those detained were Hussein Ahmad, the executive secretary to Selangor Agriculture, Natural Resources and Entrepreneurial Development committee chairman Yaakob Sapari.
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