Bar Council to file disciplinary complaints against lawyers, legal firms involved in graft

PETALING JAYA: The Bar Council will file disciplinary complaints against any lawyer or law firm involved in the recent alleged acts of corruption related to bank loan financing. Its president Mohamad Ezri Abdul Wahab said the council acknowledged recent media reports about several bank officers who were charged with receiving bribes from a law firm. “This matter...

MACC arrests two bank officers for bribing several law firms

MELAKA: Two bank officers have been arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for allegedly soliciting bribes totalling RM316,064 from several law firms here. The two are aged 35 and 43 and were detained when they turned up at the MACC office in Alai here on Wednesday evening (April 17) to have their statements recorded. The two...