SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA: A general worker with the Immigration director-general's office in Putrajaya was remanded yesterday to facilitate investigations into a corruption case involving the acceptance of bribes to issue visas to foreign workers.

Magistrate Afifah Mamat @ Yusof granted a six-day remand order against the 31-year-old man. He will be remanded till Sunday.

Cash totalling nearly RM500,000 and visas for foreign workers were also seized from various individuals.

On Monday, Immigration D-G Datuk Wahid Md Dom was released on RM30,000 bail in two sureties and a RM120,000 bond, five days after he was detained by the Anti-Corruption Agency.

The remand order of another suspect from the Immigration Department will end today.To date, nine people have been detained for their alleged involvement in the scam.