KUALA LUMPUR: The health status of former prime minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob remains uncertain as his medical leave ends on Wednesday (March 12) and the doctor treating him has not confirmed whether he is fit enough to provide a statement to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), Malay language daily Sinar Harian reports. Citing sources,...
KUALA LUMPUR: Singapore-based Malaysian property tycoon Ong Beng Seng is set to be charged on Friday (Oct 4), according to reports by Singaporean media. Channel News Asia reported that according to court records, Ong, who is also a hotelier and Singapore GP head, is likely to be charged with one count each of abetting under Section...
KUALA LUMPUR: Singapore-based Malaysian property tycoon Ong Beng Seng is set to be charged on Friday (Oct 4), according to reports by Singaporean media. Channel News Asia reported that according to court records, Ong, who is also a hotelier and Singapore GP head, is likely to be charged with one count each of abetting under Section...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court here is fixing Sept 27 for mention in Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's RM232.5mil graft case linked to the Jana Wibawa scandal. Judge Azura Alwi set the date after Muhyiddin's lawyer, Chetan Jethwani, informed the court that the Court of Appeal had rescheduled the date to deliver its decision in Muhyiddin's application...
PUTRAJAYA: Officers from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission have gone to the Human Resources Ministry to obtain documents in relation to their investigation into the Human Resource Development Corporation audit report. It is learnt that a team of investigators arrived at the ministry around 11.20am on Tuesday (July 9) and left an hour later. However, it is not...
KOTA KINABALU: A school clerk has been detained by graft busters for using her position to secure two contracts worth some RM40,000 for herself and a company linked to her husband in Sabah’s east coast Tawau district. According to a source, the suspect, in her 50s, had allegedly abused her position as an administrative assistant to...
SHAH ALAM: Former political secretary to Opposition leader Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin has been brought to the Sessions Court again to face another graft charge involving RM350,000 linked to a tender with the police force. Sayed Amir Muzzakkir Al Sayed Mohamad, 42, pleaded not guilty after the charge was read out to him before Sessions Court...
KUALA LUMPUR: The prosecution has listed seven reasons in its appeal petition in the RM150mil graft case involving Kinabatangan MP Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin and his wife Zizie Ezette Abdul Samad. In the petition filed on May 3, the prosecution contended that the High Court judge had erred in his exercise of revisionary powers when...
SINGAPORE: After nearly four years, two men who had been accused of taking part in a corruption conspiracy involving more than S$388,000 can finally walk free following the withdrawal of all charges against them. Isaac Lai Zhi Yao and Darren Zeng Shao Rong, both 43, were each granted a discharge amounting to an acquittal on April...
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak is accountable for his every action as the prime minister, finance minister and chairman of the board of advisors of 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), the High Court was told on Friday (Jan 26). Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) senior officer Nur Aida Arifin testified that Najib, or the 1MDB management, had...
