KUALA LUMPUR: The Securities Commission (SC) has appointed Tan Sri Abu Samah Nordin as the non-executive chairman of its Audit Oversight Board (AOB), effective Jan 5, 2024.
JANUARY 4 Sometime in January 2012, a police report was lodged against a suspect in the commission of a corruption offence under section 16(b) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption.
PUTRAJAYA (June 18): Former Internal Security Act (ISA) detainee Yazid Sufaat and another man who had been acquitted of promoting terrorism in Syria may have to return to court again to answer the charges after all. This comes as the Court of Appeal today ordered the High Court to proceed with the trial of Yazid and Muhammad Hilmi Hasim, who was charged with abetting Yazid. Court of Appeal Judge Datuk Seri Abu Samah Nordin, who led a three-member bench, overturned the acquittal by the High Court on May 20. Prosecutors had appealed the High Court decision to quash the charges and set free Yazid, Hilmi and a third accused person, Halimah Hussein. Halimah, however, was not part of proceedings today despite an arrest warrant out to secure her attendance. Earlier this year, Yazid and the two others were among the first to be arrested under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma), the security law which replaced the much-criticised ISA. Abu Samah said the High Court judge w