News about bribe

KUALA LUMPUR (March 3): Cash deposits and subsequent proceeds raised from Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s fixed account amounting to millions of ringgit did not trigger any alarms as the transactions involved the account of his appointed law firm Messrs Lewis & Co.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 3): Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi escaped contempt proceedings as the High Court here accepted his apology, which he made in open court, and ruled the possibility of a misunderstanding between the accused and his counsel.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 20): A businessman, who secured contracts from the Home Ministry to process foreign visas, refutes in the High Court today claims that payments he made to former deputy premier and home minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi were bribes.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 19): The High court today allowed a witness in the corruption trial of Former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi to be treated as hostile by the prosecution because of discrepancies between his written statement and testimony.

KUALA LUMPUR (19 Feb): Datasonic Group Bhd deputy managing director Chew Ben Ben told the High Court today that an alleged RM6 million bribe the company gave to former deputy prime minister Datuk Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi in 2017 was in fact a political donation to his Barisan Nasional coalition government.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 15): Of the 30 public projects worth RM3 billion that Datasonic Group Bhd secured, about two-thirds of them were granted by the Home Affairs Ministry, the company’s former managing director Datuk Abu Haniffah Noordin told the High Court yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 13): Datasonic Group Bhd’s subsidiary, Datasonic Technologies Sdn Bhd (DTSB), managed to secure an RM318.

SHAH ALAM (Jan 6): Former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was offered alternative charges by the prosecution for 33 of his 40 charges of bribery involving the overseas visa (VLN) system.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 28): A company director dealing with work permits told the High Court yesterday that he had to seek favours from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) when his firm's contract to operate a one-stop centre (OSC) in Dhaka, Bangladesh was terminated in 2015.

IPOH (Oct 10): A group of Orang Asli handed over RM15,000 in alleged bribe money supposedly from a logging company to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) yesterday, the Star, Harian Metro and Berita Harian reported.