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PRESIDENT Donald Trump's decision to freeze a law banning business bribes overseas could offer Indian tycoon Gautam Adani, one of Asia's richest people, a reprieve from American corruption allegations linked to a major solar project in India.
SEREMBAN: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has obtained an order to remand a policewoman for five days for allegedly soliciting and accepting a RM1,000 bribe.
PETALING JAYA: Gerakan Media Merdeka (Geramm), a journalist group advocating free and independent media, is closely monitoring the case of a journalist who was arrested for allegedly having received a RM20,000 bribe.
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has denied practising selective prosecution in corruption investigations involving journalists.
PETALING JAYA: The journalist arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for corruption has been remanded for four days.
PETALING JAYA: Five civil servants have been arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) as part of graft investigations into their failure to take enforcement actions against electronic waste (e-waste) factories.
IPOH: An Immigration Department officer has been charged at the Sessions Court here with two counts of bribery involving about RM16,000.
Indonesia’s anti-graft agency has identified a close aide of former president Megawati Soekarnoputri as a suspect in a bribery case.
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean appeals court held on Wednesday that main opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was not guilty of violating the election law, reversing a lower court's ruling and removing a possible block in his path to run for president.
PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has acquitted and discharged former Rural and Regional Development Ministry secretary-general Datuk Mohd Arif Ab Rahman of abetting his son in a S$200,000 bribery case related to a rural electricity supply project in Sandakan nine years ago.
KUALA LUMPUR: An agent at a vehicle inspection centre was detained by graft busters for allegedly accepting bribes in exchange for illegally getting queue numbers for faster inspections.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Monday (March 24, 2025)
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A former Russian deputy defence minister went on trial in Moscow on Monday in the first of a series of cases that signal a drive by President Vladimir Putin to punish corruption in the armed forces.
About 88 ByteDance employees were sacked, while 17 others were taken into custody by public security authorities for the reported offences.
KUANTAN: The High Court here on Friday (Jan 17) upheld the conviction and sentences imposed on a former magistrate found guilty of six counts of soliciting and accepting bribes from a businessman five years ago.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Wednesday (March 19, 2025)
KOTA KINABALU: The magistrate's court here has ordered a five-day remand for three government department enforcement officers to facilitate the investigation of a RM120,000 bribery case.
SHAH ALAM: Journalist B Nantha Kumar has pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court here to a charge of receiving a bribe from a Pakistani man last month.
KUCHING: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has detained a third suspect in connection with alleged bribery to secure construction projects worth about RM250mil in Sarawak.
