RM 9 million cop

Supt Azmi Osman (pic), who was charged on Tuesday with three counts of money laundering totalling RM1.3mil, appeared in court again on Wednesday to answer two more counts of a similar charge involving RM2.8mil. 

The 52-year-old officer claimed trial to the two charges before Sessions Judge Ishak Bakri here. 

In the first, he is accused of accepting RM2,093,300, received from illegal activities, into his bank account on Feb 6, 2002, and Dec 20, 2002. 

He is also accused of receiving RM683,850 into the account on Jan 7, 2003, and Oct 2, 2003. 

The offences are said to have been committed at Maybank in Jalan Haji Kassim, Mentakab, here. 

He faces a fine of up to RM5mil, or five years’ jail, or both, for each charge under the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act. 

Source: The Star

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Shahrir calls for better financial management, action against civil servants

Punish civil servants who waste public funds when implementing projects said Public Accounts Committee chairman Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad. 

He also wanted the ministries and agencies to improve their internal controls on financial expenditures. 

Shahrir said weak internal auditing caused the problems that led to financial mismanagement issues raised in the Auditor-General’s Report. 

Public Accounts Committee chairman Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad

“The Government must improve tougher expenditure management processes by implementing punitive and also preventive actions against wastage,” said Shahrir. 

“The laws are adequate, but the ministries and agencies should also strengthen the professional capacity of their internal auditors, all of which will eventually reduce the problems cited in the AG’s report. 

“This is an issue involving internal controls or standard operating procedures in which the ministries have to improve to gain good governance,” he said after attending a briefing by Auditor-General Tan Sri Ambrin Buang and department officers at the Parliament building yesterday. 

Source: The Star

 

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Shouting “Change, Change, Change” and carrying banners that read Bersihkan Badan Kehakiman (Clean up the Judiciary), “No to Corruption” and Rakyat Hakim Negara (The People are the Judge), more than 2,000 lawyers and activists went on a 3.5km march here yesterday. 

“When lawyers walk, something is wrong … that means we would like to see changes,” Bar Council president Ambiga Sreenevasan said. 

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On the Government’s decision to set up a three-man special independent panel headed by former Chief Judge of Malaya Tan Sri Haidar Mohd Noor to determine the authenticity of the video clip, Ambiga said the setting up of a royal commission would be preferable as it would have wider powers to compel evidence. 

Source: The Star

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