After charging three people over misappropriation of funds from the Sabah Water Department, the MACC is in talks with the deputy public prosecutor on others to be charged.
MACC Deputy Chief Commissioner Azam Baki said they were discussing with the deputy public prosecutor about pressing charges against several others invoved in the biggest graft case in the country, according to a report in the Borneo Post.
Azam declined to give details about the number of people the MACC had recommended to be charged in connection with their investigations into alleged money laundering, misappropriating of infrastructure funds and abuse of power at the Sabah Water Department.
The MACC had earlier obtained remand orders for 28 individuals, including the trio who have been charged.
Former Sabah Water Department director Ag Mohd Tahir Ag Mohd Talib, his wife Fauziah Piut and engineer Lim Lam Beng were yesterday slapped with money laundering and related charges involving RM61.48 million.
All three claimed trial.
Azam said investigations had not been completed and that the MACC was looking at various issues related to the case, including the awarding of contracts by the water department.
It had earlier been reported that investigators were checking tens of thousands of documents and analysing over 8,000 payment vouchers made between 2008 and 2016.
In October, the MACC seized RM114.5 million in cash, money in several bank accounts, 20kg of jewellery, 94 handbags, foreign currency, nine luxury cars, watches and 127 land grants.
It had been reported, too, that the MACC was investigating if certain people had misused a RM3.3 billion allocation for water supply projects in Sabah by monopolising the projects.
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