Published: Thursday April 7, 2011 MYT 1:30:00 PM
Eight Immigration officers charged with graft
SHAH ALAM: Eight Immigration officers were charged Thursday in three separate Sessions courts here with obtaining bribes amounting to RM122,140 to facilitate the entry of Indonesian immigrants into Malaysia without following proper conditions.
The eight, aged between 25 to 31, and including a woman, are facing a total of 82 charges between them.
The offences were allegedly committed between April andSeptember last year.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
PM orders thorough probe into death of Customs officer
Published: Thursday April 7, 2011 MYT 12:50:00 PM
Updated: Thursday April 7, 2011 MYT 1:15:22 PM
PM orders thorough probe into death of Customs officer
By MAZWIN NIK ANIS
PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has ordered the police and Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to conduct a thorough investigation into the death of a senior Customs officer who fell from the MACC office building in Jalan Cochrane, Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.
He said the investigation would determine what actually happened to Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed, 56, who was a state Customs assistant director based in Port Klang.
Ahmad Sarbani was among 63 Customs officers being investigated by the MACC for alleged corruption and graft.
"The report I got is that the deceased had gone to the MACC on his on accord to change his statement. The incident happened not during an investigation," Najib added.
"I hope the investigation on the incident will be comprehensive so that the people will know what actually happened," he told reporters after launching a programme in SMK Santubong, Sarawak, Thursday.
The Prime Minister also defended the MACC's investigations on the Customs department, saying it was to save the country's money.
Asked if a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) would be set up to investigate the matter, Najib said the police and MACC should be allowed to investigate first.
Meanwhile, 73 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have called for the immediate setting up of an RCI to investigate the matter.
They also called for MACC investigations director Datuk Mustafar Ali and all officers involved in the case to be suspended immediately.
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Updated: Thursday April 7, 2011 MYT 1:15:22 PM
PM orders thorough probe into death of Customs officer
By MAZWIN NIK ANIS
PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has ordered the police and Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to conduct a thorough investigation into the death of a senior Customs officer who fell from the MACC office building in Jalan Cochrane, Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.
He said the investigation would determine what actually happened to Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed, 56, who was a state Customs assistant director based in Port Klang.
Ahmad Sarbani was among 63 Customs officers being investigated by the MACC for alleged corruption and graft.
"The report I got is that the deceased had gone to the MACC on his on accord to change his statement. The incident happened not during an investigation," Najib added.
"I hope the investigation on the incident will be comprehensive so that the people will know what actually happened," he told reporters after launching a programme in SMK Santubong, Sarawak, Thursday.
The Prime Minister also defended the MACC's investigations on the Customs department, saying it was to save the country's money.
Asked if a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) would be set up to investigate the matter, Najib said the police and MACC should be allowed to investigate first.
Meanwhile, 73 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have called for the immediate setting up of an RCI to investigate the matter.
They also called for MACC investigations director Datuk Mustafar Ali and all officers involved in the case to be suspended immediately.
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Customs officer's death: MACC suspends two
Published: Thursday April 7, 2011 MYT 2:46:00 PM
Updated: Thursday April 7, 2011 MYT 3:46:09 PM
Customs officer's death: MACC suspends two
By LOURDES CHARLES
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has suspended two officers, including one who left Selangor Customs assistant director Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed unattended before he was found dead on the first floor of the MACC office in Jalan Cochrane here Wednesday.
According to an MACC statement Thursday, the officers were suspended with immediate effect, pending the outcome of the investigations into the death of Ahmad Sarbani.
Sources said the MACC had issued instructions to all its officers nationwide, after the Teoh Beng Hock incident, that all witnesses and suspects, including those having dealings with the MACC, not to be left unattended.
They said the move was to ensure nothing untoward occurred that could cast any doubts on what could have taken place.
(Teoh, who was the political secretary to Seri Kembangan assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah, was taken to the Selangor MACC office on the 14th floor of Plaza Masalam, Shah Alam, for questioning over alleged illegal disbursement of state funds on July 15, 2009. He was found dead at the building's fifth floor service corridor the following day.)
The sources also said the MACC had taken necessary precautions and action, and had installed CCTVs at strategic location inside the building.
The five-storey building in Jalan Cochrane, which was opened in December last year, was equipped with CCTVs but not at the windows or outside.
The sources also said a number of MACC offices nationwide were leased from other government departments and only a few belonged to the MACC.
Ahmad Sarbani, who fell to his death from the third floor, had been released on bail on April 2, after being picked up during the commission's investigation into a syndicate laundering billions of ringgit via tax evasion activities.
His body was found sprawled in an open air badminton court located on the first floor of the building at about 10.20am.
Ahmad Sarbani had gone to the MACC office here on his own accord. Initial findings revealed he had arrived at the building alone on a motorcycle at 8.26am.
> Full report in The Star tomorrow
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Updated: Thursday April 7, 2011 MYT 3:46:09 PM
Customs officer's death: MACC suspends two
By LOURDES CHARLES
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has suspended two officers, including one who left Selangor Customs assistant director Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed unattended before he was found dead on the first floor of the MACC office in Jalan Cochrane here Wednesday.
According to an MACC statement Thursday, the officers were suspended with immediate effect, pending the outcome of the investigations into the death of Ahmad Sarbani.
Sources said the MACC had issued instructions to all its officers nationwide, after the Teoh Beng Hock incident, that all witnesses and suspects, including those having dealings with the MACC, not to be left unattended.
They said the move was to ensure nothing untoward occurred that could cast any doubts on what could have taken place.
(Teoh, who was the political secretary to Seri Kembangan assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah, was taken to the Selangor MACC office on the 14th floor of Plaza Masalam, Shah Alam, for questioning over alleged illegal disbursement of state funds on July 15, 2009. He was found dead at the building's fifth floor service corridor the following day.)
The sources also said the MACC had taken necessary precautions and action, and had installed CCTVs at strategic location inside the building.
The five-storey building in Jalan Cochrane, which was opened in December last year, was equipped with CCTVs but not at the windows or outside.
The sources also said a number of MACC offices nationwide were leased from other government departments and only a few belonged to the MACC.
Ahmad Sarbani, who fell to his death from the third floor, had been released on bail on April 2, after being picked up during the commission's investigation into a syndicate laundering billions of ringgit via tax evasion activities.
His body was found sprawled in an open air badminton court located on the first floor of the building at about 10.20am.
Ahmad Sarbani had gone to the MACC office here on his own accord. Initial findings revealed he had arrived at the building alone on a motorcycle at 8.26am.
> Full report in The Star tomorrow
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Anwar lodges police report
Published: Tuesday March 22, 2011 MYT 12:13:00 PM
Updated: Tuesday March 22, 2011 MYT 1:22:13 PM
Sex video: Anwar lodges police report
KUALA LUMPUR: Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim lodged a police report Tuesday over the release of a sex video implicating a senior opposition politician.
He made the report at the Dang Wangi police station here.
The video was shown Monday to a select group of media representatives at Carcosa Seri Negara.
He arrived at the police station at 10.35am accompanied by his wife Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and left at about 12.05pm.
Present were PKR leaders R Sivarasa, Tian Chua and M Manickavasagam, PKR vice-president N Surendran and PKR Youth chief Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin.
In the report, copies of which were distributed to the media, Anwar denied that he was the man in the video.
"This is a humiliating, excessive and politically-motivated attack against my character and reputation and my family," he said in the report.
An unidentified group had claimed that it had a black-and-white video clip of a sexual act between an opposition leader and a woman said to be a prostitute at a hotel.
The group, led by a man who had introduced himself only as Datuk T, had said that it would hand over the video clip to the particular opposition leader and his wife in about a week.
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Updated: Tuesday March 22, 2011 MYT 1:22:13 PM
Sex video: Anwar lodges police report
KUALA LUMPUR: Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim lodged a police report Tuesday over the release of a sex video implicating a senior opposition politician.
He made the report at the Dang Wangi police station here.
The video was shown Monday to a select group of media representatives at Carcosa Seri Negara.
He arrived at the police station at 10.35am accompanied by his wife Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and left at about 12.05pm.
Present were PKR leaders R Sivarasa, Tian Chua and M Manickavasagam, PKR vice-president N Surendran and PKR Youth chief Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin.
In the report, copies of which were distributed to the media, Anwar denied that he was the man in the video.
"This is a humiliating, excessive and politically-motivated attack against my character and reputation and my family," he said in the report.
An unidentified group had claimed that it had a black-and-white video clip of a sexual act between an opposition leader and a woman said to be a prostitute at a hotel.
The group, led by a man who had introduced himself only as Datuk T, had said that it would hand over the video clip to the particular opposition leader and his wife in about a week.
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Sex video shocker
Tuesday March 22, 2011
Sex video shocker
KUALA LUMPUR: The release of a video recording of a man resembling an opposition party leader having sex with a foreign prostitute has shocked the nation in the latest scandal to rock the country.
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, speaking at a press conference at 5.30pm – some four hours after news of the recording’s existence first got out – denied that he was the man and dismissed the whole thing as a political ploy.
Anwar gesturing during a press conference at the PKR headquarters in Petaling Jaya to counter claims about a sex video. — ROHAIZAT MD DARUS / The Star
A mysterious Malay man, who identified himself as “Datuk T”, released the video at Carcosa Seri Negara. Invited newsmen were shown the almost 22-minute video under much secrecy and security.
“Datuk T” gave the politician and his wife a week to quit politics and threatened to make public the video through some NGOs if they did not.
The revelation of the tape also overshadowed other events and even rendered the Parliament debates tame as both sides of the divide digested the latest scandal.
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Sex video shocker
KUALA LUMPUR: The release of a video recording of a man resembling an opposition party leader having sex with a foreign prostitute has shocked the nation in the latest scandal to rock the country.
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, speaking at a press conference at 5.30pm – some four hours after news of the recording’s existence first got out – denied that he was the man and dismissed the whole thing as a political ploy.
Anwar gesturing during a press conference at the PKR headquarters in Petaling Jaya to counter claims about a sex video. — ROHAIZAT MD DARUS / The Star
A mysterious Malay man, who identified himself as “Datuk T”, released the video at Carcosa Seri Negara. Invited newsmen were shown the almost 22-minute video under much secrecy and security.
“Datuk T” gave the politician and his wife a week to quit politics and threatened to make public the video through some NGOs if they did not.
The revelation of the tape also overshadowed other events and even rendered the Parliament debates tame as both sides of the divide digested the latest scandal.
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
砂選舉日期‧週三定奪
砂選舉日期‧週三定奪
* 國內
2011-03-20 19:40
（砂拉越‧古晉20日訊）大馬選委會將於下週三（23日）召開特別會議，以決定砂州第十屆選舉提名與投票日。
選委會公關沙比利發表文告說，選委會主席丹斯里阿都阿茲將親自主持這項備受關注的會議，於在當天中午12時30分召開新聞發佈會公佈砂州選舉提名與投票日期。
砂州首席部長丹斯里泰益瑪目昨日宣佈，砂州議會將於明天（21日）解散，以便為下屆州選鋪路，選委會也已接獲解散州議會的通知。
沙比利在文告中指出，選委會特別會議是從早上9時於古晉鉑爾曼酒店舉行，並在稍後11時30分移交委任狀給全體參與選舉工作的選舉官。
星洲日報‧2011.03.20
* 國內
2011-03-20 19:40
（砂拉越‧古晉20日訊）大馬選委會將於下週三（23日）召開特別會議，以決定砂州第十屆選舉提名與投票日。
選委會公關沙比利發表文告說，選委會主席丹斯里阿都阿茲將親自主持這項備受關注的會議，於在當天中午12時30分召開新聞發佈會公佈砂州選舉提名與投票日期。
砂州首席部長丹斯里泰益瑪目昨日宣佈，砂州議會將於明天（21日）解散，以便為下屆州選鋪路，選委會也已接獲解散州議會的通知。
沙比利在文告中指出，選委會特別會議是從早上9時於古晉鉑爾曼酒店舉行，並在稍後11時30分移交委任狀給全體參與選舉工作的選舉官。
星洲日報‧2011.03.20
Thursday, March 10, 2011
我的第一間房屋計劃 1萬4000單位供選購
更新: March 10, 2011 17:34
我的第一間房屋計劃
1萬4000單位供選購
（吉隆坡10日訊）國家房屋公司董事經理拿督卡馬魯指出，全國共有1萬4000個單位可供月入少于3000令吉者購買，以實現政府推行的“我的第一間房屋”計劃
他說，國家房屋公司通過居者有其屋計劃，在全國推行35項發展計劃，興建房價介于10萬令吉至22萬令吉的房屋，當中12項計劃已完成。
他指出，國家房屋公司與大馬再抵押機構（Cagamas）有限公司合作，以收集購屋者數據及過濾申請者名單后，提呈給國內各金融機構。
他指出，截至目前，共有3000名購屋者有興趣加入該計劃，且該計劃允許年齡介于35歲，在私人機構任職的低收入者申請。
他接受《每日新聞》訪問時指出，“我的第一間房屋”計劃有利于購屋者。
從今年1月開始，剛加入職場和月入少于3000令吉的年輕人購買屋子，以及符合資格的年輕人可向國內超過25家金融機構，包括回教金融機構申請房貸。
有利購屋者
在此計劃下，年輕人可購買10萬令吉至22萬令吉的屋子，並可獲得100%房屋貸款，攤還期為30年。
另外，國家房屋公司主席拿督依德利斯哈崙透露，該公司將在近期設立一站式服務來協助低收入的購屋者與金融機構接洽。
“我們確保新婚夫婦和低收入者可以實現擁有自己第一間房屋的夢想，同時協助政府達成該目標。”
此外，大馬消費人協會也促請政府應管制發展商，以避免他們只發展22萬令吉以上房屋，從而邊緣化那些無能力購買房屋的一群。
我的第一間房屋計劃
1萬4000單位供選購
（吉隆坡10日訊）國家房屋公司董事經理拿督卡馬魯指出，全國共有1萬4000個單位可供月入少于3000令吉者購買，以實現政府推行的“我的第一間房屋”計劃
他說，國家房屋公司通過居者有其屋計劃，在全國推行35項發展計劃，興建房價介于10萬令吉至22萬令吉的房屋，當中12項計劃已完成。
他指出，國家房屋公司與大馬再抵押機構（Cagamas）有限公司合作，以收集購屋者數據及過濾申請者名單后，提呈給國內各金融機構。
他指出，截至目前，共有3000名購屋者有興趣加入該計劃，且該計劃允許年齡介于35歲，在私人機構任職的低收入者申請。
他接受《每日新聞》訪問時指出，“我的第一間房屋”計劃有利于購屋者。
從今年1月開始，剛加入職場和月入少于3000令吉的年輕人購買屋子，以及符合資格的年輕人可向國內超過25家金融機構，包括回教金融機構申請房貸。
有利購屋者
在此計劃下，年輕人可購買10萬令吉至22萬令吉的屋子，並可獲得100%房屋貸款，攤還期為30年。
另外，國家房屋公司主席拿督依德利斯哈崙透露，該公司將在近期設立一站式服務來協助低收入的購屋者與金融機構接洽。
“我們確保新婚夫婦和低收入者可以實現擁有自己第一間房屋的夢想，同時協助政府達成該目標。”
此外，大馬消費人協會也促請政府應管制發展商，以避免他們只發展22萬令吉以上房屋，從而邊緣化那些無能力購買房屋的一群。
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