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KUALA LUMPUR (April 7): Businessman G Gnanaraja, who is facing cheating charges in a case linked to a graft probe on the Penang undersea tunnel project, has been arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Graft Commission and will be charged with money laundering tomorrow (April 8).

In a statement today, the anti-graft body said it has received permission from the Attorney-General's Chambers to proceed with charging Gnanaraja at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court here, at 8.30am.

He was arrested earlier today, around 11.40am, at the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya.

He will be facing several charges under the Anti-Money Laundering, AntiTerrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001.

Just last week, Gnanaraja was charged with three counts of deceiving a managing director to pay him RM19 million in three transactions in 2017, in return for his help to "settle" an on-going graft probe on Consortium Zenith Construction Sdn Bhd, the main contractor of the Penang undersea tunnel project.

He pleaded not guilty to all three charges.

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