Najib released after posting bail

PUTRAJAYA (Dec 10): Ex-prime minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak was arrested at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) HQ at around close to 11am today and was released at around 1.

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Reason for late reporting of tampering will be given later —PAC

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 7): The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will wait until the end of its inquiry to reveal the reason given by senior executives of the National Audit Department for waiting until the last month to publicly allege that the 1Malaysia Development Bhd’s (1MDB) final audit report was tampered.

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1MDB audit tampering: More names crop up after PAC-Madinah meet

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 6): More names have cropped up in the Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) probe into the alleged tampering of the final audit report on 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), following a session between the committee and Auditor-General (AG) Tan Sri Dr Madinah Mohamad, who made the tampering claim, says PAC chairman Datuk Seri Ronald Kiandee.

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PAC to call up Arul Kanda, Ali Hamsa, ex-MACC chief

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 5): The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will call up several people to assist its inquiry into the possible tampering of 1Malaysia Development Bhd’s (1MDB) final audit report in 2016, after obtaining new information from former auditor-general Tan Sri Ambrin Buang.

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Jho Low charged over US$1b received by Good Star

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 5): Their whereabouts may not be known, but Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) and four of his closest Malaysian associates were slapped in absentia with criminal breach of trust (CBT) and money laundering charges involving US$1.

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Sue 1MDB’s ex-bosses, auditors — DAP lawmaker

  KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 3): The new management of 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) can take a leaf from the multiple suits brought by plantation giant FGV Holdings Bhd against its former directors, a DAP lawmaker said, in order to recover the billions of ringgit siphoned off or stolen when the previous 1MDB bosses were in charge.

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Najib: I doubted Tong’s ‘proof’

  KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 30): Former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak said he had rejected the “proof” of wrongdoings by 1Malaysia Development Bhd’s (1MDB) mastermind Low Taek Jho (Jho Low), presented to him in 2015 by The Edge Media Group chairman Tong Kooi Ong, as it was based on stolen emails by a disgruntled employee.

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