The MACC has failed to secure a remand extension against 11 of 17 company directors arrested on suspicion of involvement in the misappropriation of funds of the Malaysian Indian Transformation Unit (Mitra), according to a lawyer.

Lawyer Asheeq Ali, who represented one of the directors, told Malaysiakini the 11 were released on bail by the Putrajaya Magistrate's Court where the MACC had applied for a seven-day extension to their four-day remand...