Malaysia 1MDB scandal: ex-PM Najib Razak files bid to serve remaining jail term under house arrest
The decision was made by then-king Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah on January 29, a day before his last day in office.
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The decision was made by then-king Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah on January 29, a day before his last day in office.
In the latest case, public prosecutors on Wednesday accused prominent businessman Robert Tan Hua Choon of misleading the finance ministry in 2019 into granting his company, Spanco, a supply, repair, maintenance and management contract for the federal government’s vehicle fleet, worth nearly 4 billion ringgit (US$840 million).
Officers nabbed the 36-year-old suspect at a hotel on March 27, and checks on his hotel room yielded a cache of six semi-automatic pistols including a Sig Sauer, a Glock and Smith and Wesson, 200 bullets and several pairs of surgical gloves, all kept inside a bag.
A total of 11.6 million Malaysians aged 18 and older had signed up for the new central database (PADU) by the deadline on Sunday night, Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli said in a statement on Monday.
The drought – driven by El Nino conditions that bring prolonged hot and dry weather to the Southeast Asian nation – has been made worse by old, failing water infrastructure, causing taps to run dry since mid-February in the district, 40km southwest of state capital Kota Kinabalu.
“We hope that the decision made today will allow all parties to move forward and focus on finding a resolution that upholds justice,” McDonald’s Malaysia managing director Azmir Jaafar said in a statement.
Malaysian vegetable farmers have warned supply could fall by 40 per cent next month due to a labour shortage caused by the annual Ramadan exit of Muslim foreign workers, but exacerbated by a hard May 31 government deadline for new migrant workers to enter the country.
“I usually buy two whole chickens at the market every fortnight,” he told This Week in Asia from a wet market in Kuala Lumpur. “But if prices keep going up I may have to cut back to buying chicken just once a month.”