KOTA KINABALU: A former Land Office technician has claimed trial to soliciting a RM54,000 bribe in exchange for processing applications under a government land scheme in Sabah's east coast district of Kunak. Smith A. Lewas @ Simon, 56, was accused of asking for the money from one Goefle Joseph in May 2016 to process 27 land...
KOTA BARU: A senior civil engineer pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court here Monday (June 16) to 14 charges of receiving RM100,000 in bribes in connection with payment claims for the Central Spine Road (LTU) project in Gua Musang, Kelantan. Based on the 14 charges, Mohd Azly Abdul Aziz, 44, in his capacity as South...
KUANTAN: A former Immigration Department officer has been detained to assist in an investigation into corruption amounting to over RM10mil, involving a syndicate that smuggled foreigners into the country through the Kuala Lumpur International Airport Terminals 1 and 2 without inspection. The 50-year-old man was arrested at the Pahang branch office of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission...
PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has arrested another agent at a vehicle inspection centre on suspicion of accepting bribes to obtain queue numbers to speed up the vehicle inspection process without following proper procedures. According to the MACC, Senior Assistant Registrar Assayidatun Najwa Muhammad Nasution granted the MACC's request for a four-day remand order against...
KUALA LUMPUR: Five police personnel from the General Operations Force, who rejected a RM50,000 bribe during an Ops Taring Wawasan assignment in Kelantan on Monday (Dec 9), received letters of appreciation from the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Razarudin Husain. A post on the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) Facebook page on Wednesday (Dec 11) named...
PETALING JAYA: A true Muslim with a strong faith will not take bribes nor turn corruption into a racial issue, says Datuk Seri Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay. The Deputy Inspector-General of Police said that despite corruption being widely condemned in the Quran, many of those caught receiving bribes were Muslims and it was turned into a...
KUALA LUMPUR: Seven local authority enforcement personnel have been remanded for allegedly accepting monthly bribes of almost RM12,000 from businesses operating illegally. Sources said the suspects, aged between 30 and 40 years old, were detained by Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers around the city between 8.30am and 11am on Monday (July 22) through a...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) obtained permission to extend the remand of a highway concessionaire chief operating officer, who was detained on suspicion of receiving over RM300,000 in bribes for a highway construction project in the Klang Valley. According to sources, the Putrajaya Magistrate’s Court issued the three-day remand extension, effective until Monday (July...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has nabbed two more individuals for alleged corruption over a highway construction project in the Klang Valley worth more than RM1bil. The duo are the chairman and director of a company which were sub-contractors for the project. The chairman, with a Datuk title, was remanded until July 6 while the...
