PUTRAJAYA: Mahkamah Persekutuan mengekalkan sabitan dan hukuman 12 tahun penjara serta denda RM210 juta yang dikenakan ke atas Datuk Seri Najib Razak yang didapati bersalah menyeleweng dana RM42 juta milik SRC International Sdn Bhd. Panel lima hakim dipengerusikan Ketua Hakim Negara, Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat sebulat suara membuat keputusan…
PETALING JAYA: The Federal Court’s decision to affirm Najib Razak’s conviction does not mean the “struggle” against corruption is over, a former prime minister said. Muhyiddin Yassin said Najib’s trial for alleged misappropriation of RM2.3 billion in funds from 1MDB had yet to end and Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s…
KOTA KINABALU: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) menerusi Pusat Pengurusan Strategik dan Komunikasi Korporat menjayakan Jelajah Pendidikan Keluarga Malaysia di empat buah lokasi anjuran Yayasan Prihatin Nasional (PRIHATIN). Pengarah PPSKK UMS, Prof. Madya Dr. Fiffy Hanisdah Saikim berkata, empat lokasi tersebut adalah Tawau, Kinabatangan, Putatan, dan Kota Kinabalu Sabah. “Pada pameran…
PETALING JAYA: Police are not investigating the husband of Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat over a 2018 Facebook post deemed critical of former prime minister Najib Razak. Cheras district police chief Zam Halim Jamaluddin said the post by Zamani Ibrahim was a personal political opinion. “It has no criminal…
PETALING JAYA: An anti-graft body said the Federal Court’s decision to affirm Najib Razak’s conviction is proof that the “arduous” tasks of whistleblowing and standing up to injustice are not without return. The Center to Combat Corruption & Cronyism (C4) also said that the conviction and sentencing was a “monumental…
PETALING JAYA: The chief registrar’s office of the Federal Court said that the written judgment on Najib Razak’s appeal which was published in a blog today was merely a draft. In a statement, it said the draft that was leaked had not been finalised, with the final version being delivered…
PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has held that former prime minister Najib Razak’s conviction on all seven charges preferred against him was safe. In a unanimous decision contained in broad grounds of judgment and read out by Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, the court said: “We are not satisfied that…
PUTRAJAYA: A lawyer has cautioned that applications for a review of convictions and sentences were rarely successful. This comes after former prime minister Najib Razak’s defence team in his SRC International case said it might consider filing a review application on his conviction. Earlier today, the Federal Court affirmed former…
KAJANG: Najib Razak has arrived at the Kajang prison to serve his 12-year sentence after the apex court affirmed his conviction earlier today. The former prime minister arrived at 6.05pm and was escorted by police. He had left the Palace of Justice at 5.30pm. Meanwhile, the entrance to the prison…
PUTRAJAYA: Former prime minister Najib Razak was driven out of the Palace of Justice at 5.30pm in a black car after the Federal Court affirmed his conviction and sentence in the SRC International case. Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat issued a warrant of committal to send Najib to prison…
PETALING JAYA: A comeback for Umno’s “court cluster” is unlikely after the Federal Court affirmed Najib Razak’s conviction and sentence in the SRC International case, says a political analyst. James Chin of the University of Tasmania’s Asia Institute said the court’s ruling today would pave the way for Ismail Sabri…
PETALING JAYA: Many social media users showed their creative side in reacting to the Federal Court’s affirmation of former prime minister Najib Razak’s conviction and sentence in the SRC International case. Many took to Twitter and Facebook to praise the apex court’s decision, while others posted memes and photoshopped images…
PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has affirmed former prime minister Najib Razak’s conviction and sentence in the SRC International case. This means Najib, the Pekan MP, is set to begin serving his jail term immediately. On July 28, 2020, Najib was convicted on all charges and sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment…
KUANTAN – The Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC), an agency under the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry encourages start-ups as well as micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to increase their knowledge and apply the fourth industrial revolution (IR 4.0) in their businesses. MTDC Technology Ventures Division director Mohammad Hazani…
PUTRAJAYA – The prosecution in Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s SRC International final appeal hearing has ticked off the defence team for its delay tactics, after a lawyer sitting in the gallery attempted to submit his own arguments in a bid to recuse the chief justice. Ad hoc prosecutor Datuk V.…
KUALA LUMPUR – It appears that Boustead Heavy Industries Corp Bhd (BHIC) had first-hand knowledge and strong evidence of power abuse involving former littoral combat ship (LCS) programme director Anuar Murad since 2018. This is based on the findings of a forensic audit commissioned by BHIC, which identified several major…
KUALA LUMPUR: Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who is facing corruption charges, told the High Court here today he was appointed to helm the home ministry for five years from 2013 as he was a man of integrity. He said the ministry was an important component in the government administration as it…
PETALING JAYA: The lack of access to quotations and missing minutes of meetings were among the challenges auditors faced in producing a newly declassified report on the navy’s troubled littoral combat ships (LCS) project. In the 104-page forensic audit report by Alliance IFA (M) Sdn Bhd, which was released yesterday…
KUANTAN: The body of a 14-year-old Orang Asli girl, believed to have been murdered, was found among bushes near her house at Bukit Ibam in Rompin, Pahang, on Sunday. Rompin police chief Azahari Mukhtar said the body of the girl, who did not attend school, was found by her cousin,…
PETALING JAYA: A report by Boustead Heavy Industries Corp (BHIC) has revealed that human error led to a costly design contract being awarded to DCNS as a sub-contractor in the troubled littoral combat ships (LCS) project. Referring to this human error as “a series of common sense lapses”, BHIC’s recently…