MELAKA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has detained five men for allegedly receiving RM316,064 from several law firms here as inducements for real estate loan approvals.

Two of the five are lawyers, while the others include a bank officer,a former banker as well as a manager of a law firm here.

All those detained are aged between 37 and 53 and were produced at the Magistrate’s Court in Ayer Keroh on Thursday (June 6) where Magistrate Nabilah Nizam granted the application for a five-day remand period.

Based on the preliminary information, all five were suspected to have demanded kickbacks from law firms here in order to facilitate the documentation process for the approval of property loans from a financial institution based here and also from its headquarters in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

The offences were allegedly committed from 2018 to 2022.

Melaka MACC director Adi Supian Shafie confirmed the arrest of the five.

He said the arrests were made when the five arrived at the MACC office in Alai here on Wed(June 5) afternoon to assist in the investigation under Section 16(a)(A) of the MACC Act 2009.