GEORGE TOWN: The Sessions Court here has fixed April 14 to decide on legal representation by two private companies charged with operating an unregistered medical clinic. RR Beaute Solutions Sdn Bhd and CTA Training Academy Sdn Bhd have been charged with operating the unregistered facility on Jalan Rangoon here. Judge Irwan Suainbon set the date after Health...
JOHOR BARU: A 34-year-old lawyer pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court here for allegedly using his legal firm’s account as a "mule account" to carry out an illegal transaction. Muhammad Valantino Ifni Ho Ridzuan was accused of being directly involved in a RM350,000 transaction involving funds from Bank Pertanian Malaysia Bhd, which was channelled to...
KUALA LUMPUR: The widow of Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin has submitted a representation seeking to drop charges of conspiring with her late husband to receive RM2.8mil in bribes. The bribes were allegedly for securing approval for Felcra Berhad to invest RM150mil in Public Mutual Berhad unit trust products. Datin Seri Zizie Izette Abdul Samad's lawyer, Datuk...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court here has allowed business tycoon Tan Sri Abu Sahid Mohamed temporary access to his passport for him to travel to London next month. Judge Suzana Hussin made the order for Abu Sahid's passport to be returned to him on Friday (Dec 19) and surrendered back to the court by Jan 30. Abu...
SEREMBAN: A 63-year-old senior citizen pleaded guilty in the Sessions Court here to a charge of committing physical sexual assault on a nine-year-old girl. Noor Aini Ismail did not contest the charge after it was read to him before judge N. Kanageswari on Friday (Dec 12). The accused was charged with committing the offence in a garage...
KUALA LUMPUR: The arrest and subsequent court charge against businessman-turned-whistleblower Datuk Albert Tei undermine efforts to combat corruption in government, says his lawyer Latheefa Koya. She said Tei’s prosecution was unprecedented, as he was the individual who first exposed the alleged wrongdoing in the ongoing Sabah mineral exploration and mining licensing corruption case. Latheefa said it was...
SHAH ALAM: All the 230 money laundering cases, involving more than RM24.1mil, facing GISB Sdn Bhd (GISB) chief executive officer Nasiruddin Mohd Ali and three former accountants, will be jointly heard before Sessions Court Fatimah Zahari. Judge Awang Kerisnada Awang Mahmud (Criminal Sessions Court 2) made the order after allowing an application by the prosecution for all the cases,...
GEORGE TOWN: A doctor was charged in two Magistrates' Courts on Friday (Oct 17) with four counts of molestation and indecent assault involving two foreign women in February. Dr Goon Hoong Tatt, 43, of Penang Hospital, pleaded not guilty to all the charges before magistrates Nur Fadrina Zulkhairi and Muhammad Amzar Ismail. In the court before magistrate...
SEREMBAN: A 35-year-old man claimed trial in the Sessions Court here to seven charges of robbing his victims of jewellery over a period of 17 months. Mohamad Halikhwan Halbahri pleaded not guilty after the charges were read to him before Judge Mohamad Kamil Nizam on Wednesday (Oct 15). He was charged separately with robbing seven women aged...
KUALA LUMPUR: More than RM169mil of monies in various currencies, linked to former prime minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, has been forfeited by the government. Sessions Court judge Suzana Hussin made the order of forfeiture after allowing the application by the government. Earlier, DPP Mahadi Abdul Jumaat informed the court that no third party has come...
