KOTA KINABALU: Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun says the latest videos implicating him and other Sabah assemblymen in an alleged mining scandal are specifically intended as character assassination. “I am shocked how some people can go all out to malign others with lies and character assassination,” the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) secretary-general said on Tuesday (Dec 3)...
Chinese businessman Wang Sicong, 36, the son of billionaire tycoon and Dalian Wanda Group chairman Wang Jianlin, is used to the finer things in life, and he doesn’t shy away from flaunting his lavish lifestyle on social media. He was recently seen at the Marina Bay Sands Casino lounging comfortably in front of a slot machine. And the netizen who...
KUALA LUMPUR: Former aide to a Bersatu assemblyman has been sentenced to 13 years in prison and two strokes of the cane by the Sessions Court here for rape. Judge Nor Hasniah Ab Razak, in a decision made last May 31, found Mohd Zulfahimin Mahdzir, 40, guilty of the offence. Mohd Zulfahimin, then an aide of Gombak...
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) raided a Tan Sri's residence in connection with a corruption case involving procurement and management of the government's fleet of vehicles worth RM4.5bil. Along with raiding the residence of the Tan Sri, who is a businessman, the MACC also raided four companies including a government vehicle supplier. Sources told a...
KOTA KINABALU: A politician's son who allegedly hoodwinked a top police officer into giving him almost RM50,000 has been charged with cheating at a Special Corruption Court here. Aries Ryan Philip Among, 30, was accused of pretending to be Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki, among others, to get the policeman to...
KOTA KINABALU: A company director ended up paying more than three times he owed the Inland Revenue Board (LHDN) after he was found guilty for failing to file his income tax annual returns for two years. The 59-year-old automobile batteries dealer Wee Yung Heow was slapped with a penalty of RM2.6mil and fined RM10,000 by a...
PETALING JAYA: Two officers and a former officer from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) have pleaded not guilty in two Sessions Courts here to robbing a Chinese businessman of almost RM1mil at a luxury residence two years ago. Muhamad Haffiz Mohd Radzi, 33, Mohd Fahmee Mohamad Nor, 41, and Azwan Asli, 38, claimed trial to the...
KOTA KINABALU: Sarawak businessman Datuk Seri Thomas Hah Tiing Siu, who was linked to a controversial land deal on an island in Sabah's northern Kudat district, has backed out of the deal. Hah said the decision took into account the controversy stirred by certain groups over his company's plan to invest in an agro-development project in...
KOTA BARU: The man who was shot dead on Jalan Hutan Kuin in Machang, near here, on Sunday (Sept 17), was found to have a criminal record, including for drug-related offences. Kelantan police chief comm Datuk Muhamad Zaki Harun said the 38-year-old businessman was in a four-wheel drive (4WD) vehicle in front of an auto parts...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court here acquitted and discharged a businessman for dishonest misappropriation of RM10,000 belonging to an oil and gas company by allegedly using the funds for his personal use. Judge Datin Sabariah Othman ordered Mohamed Noor Mohamed Amin, 50, to be freed on Wednesday (Aug 2) after finding that the prosecution had failed...
