Perak Exco reps Osman and Jamaluddin among 6 nabbed by ACA (Update)

IPOH: Two Perak state executive councillors are among six people arrested by the Anti Corruption Agency (ACA) for alleged graft, involving a proposed housing project in Seri Iskandar worth RM 180mil. The two Exco members are Changkat Jering assemblyman Kapt (Rtd) Mohd Osman Mohd Jailu, 57, and Behrang assemblyman Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi, 52. Confirming the arrests, state Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) director Samsiah Abu Bakar said Osman and four others were picked up at a hotel in Ipoh on Tuesday at 5.40pm while Jamaluddin was detained later when he went to the ACA office here. Osman and the other four others - a PKR member, who stood and lost in the last general elections, a businessman, a Perak Development Corporation technician and a Perak Tengah municipal councillor - have been ordered to be remanded for three days to... [read full story]