Kuala Lumpur: Two members of the Senate were sworn in before the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed, at a ceremony held in the Senate today.
Kota Kinabalu: A water engineer told the court Friday that he was forced to collect a 27.5 per cent “contribution” from the divisional contractor so that the State Water Department (JANS) headquarters would approve allocations to the JANS division.
Published on: Friday, February 26, 2021
By: Jo Ann Mool
Rupia is seen outside the court after the proceedings.
Kota Kinabalu: A 50-year-old government servant was on Thursday fined RM20,000 or six months jail by the Sessions Court here for corruptly accepting RM169,400 from a contractor.
Judge Abu Bakar Manat meted out the sentence to Rupia @ Rubee Gindol, who pleaded guilty to receiving the money from one Berry Yong Soon, 35, at the CIMB bank in Api-Api Centre, here between 2018 and 2019.
The charge stated that Rupia as a Community Development Assistant at the Sabah General Welfare Services Department, received the money from Yong, who has relation to her official work at the said department.