News about MD

PUTRAJAYA (Feb 25): The Court of Appeal has fixed June 17 to hear an appeal from Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah to stop former Federal Court judge Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram (pictured) from prosecuting them in 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) cases.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 25): All four charges against former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng will be tried together before High Court judge Datuk Muhammad Jamil Hussin, a prosecutor said.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 24): National Audit Department (NAD) director Datuk Nor Salwani Muhammad has denied that she was conferred a datukship solely because of her role in exposing the alleged tampering of the original audit report of the scandal-hit 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 23): The Malaysian government through the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) had obtained a judgement in default (JID) at the High Court last week against 1Malaysia Development Bhd's (1MDB) former general counsel Jasmine Loo Ai Swan over her unpaid taxes amounting to RM2.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 22): After being slapped with a suit for unpaid tax of RM2.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 18): The 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)-Tanore trial was abruptly adjourned today after the current witness, former chief executive officer (CEO) Mohd Hazem Abdul Rahman, informed the court that he was in contact with a patient found to be Covid-19 positive.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 16): Former 1MDB chief executive officer Mohd Hazem Abdul Rahman (pictured) has denied being involved in the US$3 billion fundraising exercise undertaken by the state fund in 2012, contradicting an earlier statement by his predecessor Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 16): High Court judge Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah, who is presiding over the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)-Tanore trial, has dismissed the application made by the accused Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pictured) to postpone the trial this week.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 15): Former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) CEO Mohd Hazem Abdul Rahman (pictured) testified today that while he was told that 1MDB was used to fund Umno, during his tenure, he had seen no such evidence of money from the government investment fund benefitting Umno or former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 15): Despite being aware of possible elements of criminal wrongdoing in 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), its former chief executive officer (CEO) said he went along with the instructions given to him by purported master conspirator Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) as the ex-CEO was fearful of then prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.