He was arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on Friday and remanded for seven days by magistrate Lovelt Natasha Charles.
The application for remand was made by MACC prosecuting officer Mohd Faliq Basiruddin.
He is among 21 Malaysian lawyers wanted by the authorities.
Since 2017, he was sought by the MACC in its probe into a RM150mil Risda land deal in Sabah’s Tongod district that failed to materialise over native land conversion issues.
It is understood that he returned to Sabah earlier this month and turned up at the MACC office at 1.30pm on Friday before being arrested at 4.15pm.
“We need time to carry out investigations. We will submit our papers to the public prosecutor’s office.
“If there is an order, they will prosecute, ” an MACC official said.
On Friday, his family members via a lawyer told the media that his legal firm paid back RM18mil from the land deal that did not go through.
They claimed the settlement was agreed to by Risda, which faced no losses with the interest paid.
The case involved the sale of two plots of land in Tongod to Risda in 2014, which fell through although a RM15mil down payment had been paid by Risda through the lawyer’s legal firm.
On Thursday, state Infrastructure Minister Datuk Peter Anthony claimed trial to five money-laundering charges involving RM8.75mil at the Sessions Court here.
Peter was arrested in 2017 in connection with the investigations.a
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