News about MD

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 3): Ex-prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pictured) is unhappy about Education Minister Maszlee Malik’s plan to include the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) saga as part of schools’ history lessons.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 3): Education Minister Maszlee Malik (pictured) said The 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal saga will be included as part of local history to ensure that such mistakes will not be made again, reported the news portal Malaysiakini today.

  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.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 30): Bids from potential buyers from all over the world were received for the Equanimity which was previously owned by fugitive financier Low Taek Jho (Jho Low).

  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.

PETALING JAYA (Nov 29): Bidding for the US$250 million (RM1 billion) superyacht Equanimity once owned by fugitive financier Jho Low has closed yesterday.

PETALING JAYA (Nov 28): The Malaysian Developers Council of Australia (MDCA) has been established and launched in Melbourne earlier this week, the council was set up with the objective to assist Malaysian developers who are looking at expanding their presence Down Under.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 28): Parti Keadilan Rakyat’s (PKR) president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has reiterated that Goldman Sachs Group should be made to pay back more than the amount it received from the Malaysian government for facilitating bond sales for 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) due to its “disgusting” role in the matter.

  KUALA LUMPUR: Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng lambasted opposition members of parliament (MPs) from Barisan Nasional (BN) yesterday for refusing to face the reality that 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) is a mega scandal, calling them “an ostrich burying its head in the sand”.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 27): Tan Sri Shukry Mohd Salleh has been ousted as chairman of Bank Rakyat’s board with immediate effect, as he is allegedly involved in the tampering of the original audit report on 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) when he was the chief private secretary of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.