Three doctors, 30 others remanded for falsifying Socso claims

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Three doctors in Penang and 30 other suspects have been remanded over their alleged links to a cartel involved in falsifying Social Security Organisation (Socso) disability claims.    It is understood that the doctors are from two public hospitals and a private hospital in Seberang Prai.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/48hufer9  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Three senior doctors and 30 other suspects arrested for allegedly making false SOCSO

00:07claims were brought to the court in Georgetown on Wednesday to be remanded.

00:12The 32 men and a woman, aged between 26 and 60, were brought in five MACC vans under heavy

00:18security at 9 a.m.

00:21Magistrate Nadratun Naeem Mohammed Saeedi ordered the three doctors to be remanded for

00:26two days while the woman for one day to assist with investigations under Section 18 of the

00:32MACC Act 2009.

00:35The other suspects were ordered to be remanded for three days.

00:38The doctors were arrested by the MACC to facilitate investigations into allegations of falsifying

00:44disability claims by SOCSO.

00:47It is understood that they are from two public hospitals and a private hospital in Seberang

00:52Prai.

00:53These are the Seberang Jaya Hospital, Bukit Mertajam Hospital, and the Bagan Specialist

00:58Hospital.

00:59The other suspects are 19 SOCSO contributors, eight agents, and three runners who were picked

01:05up during a series of raids conducted by the MACC.

01:09MACC Chief Tansri Azambaki had said that most of the detained contributors are employed

01:15in the factory and port sectors in the state.

01:18The arrests came after Penang Senator Dr. R. A. Lingeswaran called on the government,

01:23particularly the Human Resources Ministry, to explain the alleged suspension of senior

01:28doctors handling SOCSO disability claims purportedly linked to a cartel in the state.

01:34He was said to have told the Day One Negara that the panel was suspended until further

01:38notice after SOCSO discovered the racket at a hospital in Penang.

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