News by Ahmad Naqib Idris

Tengku Adnan, who is also known as Ku Nan, is charged in his capacity as Federal Territories Minister in 2016 to have accepted for himself RM2 million from Aset Kayamas Sdn Bhd managing director Tan Sri Chai Kin Kong via a Hong Leong Islamic Bank cheque belonging to Aset Kayamas.

Musa's lawyer Francis Ng Aik Guan has today updated High Court judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah with the Court of Appeal's decision to reinstate the Sessions Court's order that the defendant's passport be returned to him.

Justice Datuk Mohd Firuz Jaffril found that the prosecution did not state clearly the facts of the purported contemptuous words uttered by Muhammad Shafee regarding his client Datuk Seri Najib Razak's ongoing case.

Former AmBank relationship manager Joanna Yu Ging Ping may have used RM55,000 of her own money to cover an overdraft in Datuk Seri Najib Razak's AmBank account ending 906, to avoid a cheque that was issued from bouncing.

Jho Low used quirky nomenclature, often referring to US$1 million as one "American pie" while each RM1 million was denoted as one "satay".

During cross-examination today, Datuk Seri Najib Razak's lawyer Harvinderjit Singh asked Yu, who is the prosecution's 54th witness, whether she had shared excerpts of emails or chat logs with WSJ reporters Bradley Hope and Tom Wright, who were also the authors of Billion Dollar Whale.

Yu is a witness in Najib's trial on the alleged misappropriation of money from SRC.

His legal team had today issued a statement regarding the seizure of bank accounts allegedly associated with him.

The fresh capital will be injected into Scomi by underwriting the proposed rights issue which is fixed at 18 sen per share.

"It is normal to give gifts to other leaders. Usually the government will bear the cost of the gifts (such as when the fourth prime minister gave a big gift to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe), but I had paid for the gifts using my own credit cards."