PETALING JAYA: His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, reaffirms that fighting corruption, the country's number one enemy, will be a major focus of his reign. Sultan Ibrahim said he had granted an audience to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki on Monday (April 1) to find out the latest developments from...
PETALING JAYA: His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, reaffirms that fighting corruption, the country's number one enemy, will be a major focus of his reign. Sultan Ibrahim said he had granted an audience to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki on Monday (April 1) to find out the latest developments from...
PUTRAJAYA: Graft investigators are not ruling out the possibility of the involvement of other senior police officers in the case of a police officer arrested for allegedly taking bribes to overlook certain illegal activities, says Tan Sri Azam Baki. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner said this was being looked into as investigators are combing...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has detained the owner and director of a company suspected of colluding with a cigarette and alcohol smuggling syndicate. According to sources, both individuals allegedly had roles as collectors of mule accounts to be used in paying bribes to civil servants involved in releasing containers filled with cigarettes and...
PETALING JAYA: Ten civil servants have been arrested for allegedly taking over RM3mil in bribes from smugglers. According to sources, the suspects, aged in their 30s to 50s, were arrested with five others when they went to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) headquarters on Tuesday to have their statements recorded. “The arrests were made following Op Samba...
PUTRAJAYA: Eight luxury cars valued at about RM6mil has been seized by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in their probe into a syndicate believed to have smuggled tobacco, cigarettes and liquor into the country. It is learnt that the cars belong to several individuals who own companies involved or acted as middlemen who bribed officers of...
PUTRAJAYA: Graft investigators have arrested three company owners, two of them Datuk, on the suspicion of giving bribes to civil servants so that action will not be taken against smuggling activities involving tobacco, cigarettes and liquor. The three, who were in their 30s, were nabbed when they were summoned to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission headquarters at...
PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) is searching for a man who failed to turn up in court to face corruption charges. Mohd Razain Hashim, whose last address is 43A, Jalan Bukit Pandan Bistari 5, Taman Bukit Pandan Bestari, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, failed to present himself at the Shah Alam Sessions Court to be charged. "A warrant...
JOHOR BARU: A 52-year-old medical laboratory technologist claimed trial to 25 charges of receiving bribes amounting to RM16,150 at the Sessions Court here in relation to a recent urine-tampering controversy. Saifulamin Sabran pleaded not guilty after the charges were read to him in front of judge Datuk Ahmad Kamal Arifin Ismail on Sunday (Feb 18). According to...
KUALA LUMPUR: A managing director of a tractor distribution company has been detained in connection with a suspected graft involving a RM25mil agriculture tractor supply project. The woman, in her 50s, was remanded until Feb 8. She was brought to Putrajaya Magistrate's Court on Tuesday (Feb 6), where Magistrate Irza Zulaikha Rohanuddin issued the remand order. Sources said...
