PUTRAJAYA: Officers from the Customs Department are among 17 individuals detained to assist in a corruption probe, believed to have caused leakages of RM3.5 billion in Port Klang. It is learnt that officers from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission had seized cash worth RM4.4mil believed to have been obtained by the said Customs officers through corrupt practices. Of...
IPOH: A 46-year-old Penang Road Transport Department (JPJ) assistant enforcement officer has been slapped with five charges of accepting bribes amounting to RM3,300. Saibullah Zaid Abdul Halim from Sungai Jawi, Penang, pleaded not guilty after the charges under Section 165 of the Penal Code was read to him before Sessions Court judge Datuk Ibrahim Osman here...
KOTA KINABALU: Customs officers have detected another case of falsely declared goods brought into Sabah by smuggling syndicates to evade tax. Sabah Customs seized six containers with some RM2.7mil worth of beer, including unpaid taxes, that came through Sepanggar port near here on May 10. The seizure was made after it was determined that the consignment had...
PUTRAJAYA: Eight individuals, including brokers, bank officers and a company director, have been remanded for alleged bribery involving close to RM2mil from a syndicate selling Felda-owned land in Melaka. It is learnt that graft investigators arrested three brokers and two civilians in Kuala Lumpur while two bank officers and a company director were arrested in Sabah. The...
KOTA KINABALU: Investigations are still ongoing into the Demand-Responsive Transit (DRT) project awarded to Youth and Sports Minister Hannah Yeoh’s husband, said Tan Sri Azam Baki. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner said they were looking at the process used by the Selangor government in awarding the project to the company where Yeoh’s husband is...
KOTA BHARU: A government department director has been remanded for two days from Thursday (June 6) to assist in investigations into allegations of soliciting and accepting bribes amounting to hundreds of thousands of ringgit. The remand order on the 58-year-old man was issued by Magistrate Rais Imran Hamid. Earlier, the man, wearing an orange lock-up shirt and...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) partners, which include Malaysia, said at the inaugural Clean Economy Investor Forum (CEIF) that over US$23 billion of priority infrastructure projects have been identified. In a statement today, the Investment, Trade and Industry Ministry said this includes about US$6 billion of ready projects proponents presented to investors. Its...
PETALING JAYA: Youth and Sports Minister Hannah Yeoh has broken her silence over Selangor’s Demand-Responsive Transit (DRT) controversy, which involves her husband, after the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) said it had launched an investigation. She said she welcomed the probe into Asia Mobility Technologies Sdn Bhd (Asia Mobiliti), where her husband is chief executive officer, which...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has launched a probe into a transportation project "proof of concept" by the Selangor government involving a minister’s husband. It is understood that the MACC had received several new reports regarding the matter, providing new leads for examination by the anti-graft agency. This inquiry is believed to be connected to...
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court was told that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner and the Attorney General were replaced when the investigation into corruption involving 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) took place. MACC senior officer Nur Aida Ariffin, who is the investigating officer of the probe, testified that there was a change in the two...
