DUNGUN: A single mother, struggling to make ends meet, has resorted to using her daughter's National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) loan to buy essential food supplies and cover basic living expenses. Zailawati Ismail, 41, from Felda Jerangau, said her family's life took a turn for the worse after her husband, Ramli Mat Rahim, died two...
MELAKA: Two women have been arrested over suspected involvement in a scam offering non-existent online loans, says Melaka’s top cop. State police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Dzulkhairi Mukhtar said the suspects, aged 25 and 33 years old, respectively, were apprehended during a raid at a residence in Desa Cheng Perdana here on Monday (April 28). “They are...
PUTRAJAYA: Six more individuals, including current and former banking officers, have been remanded for five days to assist in investigations into a corruption case involving the processing and approval of personal loan applications submitted by a financial consultancy firm. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) said that the remand order against four men and two women was...
PETALING JAYA: Various household items belonging to actress Rozita Che Wan, valued at nearly RM100,000, were seized by the court on Tuesday. According to an anonymous legal representative, the writ was handed over to Rozita’s mother as the 51-year-old actress, also known as Che Ta, was not home at the time. “Today, we issued the writ, assessed...
LUMUT: A total of 430,000 borrowers have failed to repay their loans from the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN), amounting to an estimated RM6bil. Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir said that these borrowers have never made any repayments to PTPTN despite many having established careers. He said that unpaid loans have steadily...
KOTA KINABALU: AirAsia repaid Sabah Development Bank (SDBank) over half of the load it received four years ago during the Covid-19 lockdown. Tan Sri Tony Fernandes says AirAsia is forever grateful to the Sabah government and the Sabah Development Bank (SDBank) for its RM300mil loan during the 2020 pandemic crisis. The chief executive officer of Capital A...
KUALA LUMPUR: Some US$120mil of the loan from Retirement Fund Inc (KWAP) to SRC International Sdn Bhd landed in Datuk Seri Najib Razak's bank account between 2011 and 2012, the High Court here was told. Offshore asset recovery specialist Angela Barkhouse testified that the money entered Najib's personal AmBank account through three transactions from a company...
