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MACC: Batu Caves temple committee member arrested, house raided
PETALING JAYA: A senior committee member of the Batu Caves Sri Subramaniam Hindu temple was arrested after his house at Kota Damansara was raided by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), for alleged corruption over the sale of a plot of land belonging to the temple.
Sources said the raid at the house was conducted on Monday evening and lasted several hours in the presence of the senior committee member and his family.
It is learnt that investigators searched the home of the suspect and seized wads of cash in local and foreign currencies, documents, luxury watches and other items.
At the end of the raid, the senior committee member was held and taken to the Putrajaya MACC headquarters for further investigations.
Sources said it is yet to be decided if the man will be remanded today to assist in investigations.
The raid was part of the commission’s investigations on a questionable deal involving 1.6-ha plot belonging to the temple.
The deal which, was inked in 2014, was a venture between the temple committee and a developer to construct commercial and residential property on the agricultural land.
The project was valued at RM250 million and the agreed deal was that the temple would receive 25% of the sum from the developer.
The plot of land in question is about 2 km from the temple site and was donated by a devotee of the temple over two decades ago.
Over the years it has been leased to used car dealers.
Since 2014, several groups had alleged corruption in the land deal, vehemently opposing to the sale and urging the authorities to investigate the temple committee.
