Medical lab technologist faces 25 urine-tampering charges

JOHOR BARU: A 52-year-old medical laboratory technologist claimed trial to 25 charges of receiving bribes amounting to RM16,150 at the Sessions Court here in relation to a recent urine-tampering controversy. Saifulamin Sabran pleaded not guilty after the charges were read to him in front of judge Datuk Ahmad Kamal Arifin Ismail on Sunday (Feb 18). According to...

Managing director remanded in RM25mil graft probe

KUALA LUMPUR: A managing director of a tractor distribution company has been detained in connection with a suspected graft involving a RM25mil agriculture tractor supply project. The woman, in her 50s, was remanded until Feb 8. She was brought to Putrajaya Magistrate's Court on Tuesday (Feb 6), where Magistrate Irza Zulaikha Rohanuddin issued the remand order. Sources said...

Recycling firm owners remanded for bribing enforcement officer

SEREMBAN: The owners of two recycling companies here have been remanded for seven days over an alleged RM4,000 bribe to an enforcement officer. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission obtained the remand order on the duo on Tuesday (Jan 23) following an application by its prosecuting officer Zainab Yahya before magistrate Nurul Saqinah Rosli here. The owners, in their...

Another detained in probe into issuing driving licences in Sabah

KOTA KINABALU: Graft-busters have arrested another suspect in connection with a syndicate involving enforcement officers approving driving licences for applicants without the compulsory driving tests here. The foreigner in his 40s was detained when he went to provide a statement at the Lahad Datu Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office at 4pm on Tuesday (Nov 21). A seven-day...

MACC arrests exec for graft involving foreign worker computer system

PUTRAJAYA: An executive with a company providing foreign worker management systems has been arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for allegedly taking RM45,000 in bribes. It is learnt the bribes were an inducement to make changes in the computer system between June and October this year. An MACC spokesman said the woman, in her 20s, was...