GEORGE TOWN: Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia urges the Penang government to explain four major doubts on the Penang Undersea Tunnel project raised by the party following the completion of the project s feasibility study.
Its deputy president Oh Tong Keong urged the state s Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow to answer to the queries. The feasibility study report of the Penang Undersea Tunnel project by Consortium Zenith Construction Sdn Bhd is finally completed, as pointed out by Penang Work, Utilities And Flood Mitigation Committee chairman Zairil Khir Johari. First, where is the tunnel entrance and exit finalised in the feasibility report? he said.
2020: Malaysia s major court cases New Strats Times
JANUARY
Jan 2: Kinabatangan member of parliament Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin and wife Datin Seri Zizie Izette s corruption trial starts at the Sessions Court. Bung is charged with three counts of receiving RM2.8 million in bribes to obtain approval for Felcra Bhd to make a RM150 million investment in Public Mutual Bhd. His wife, actress and producer Zizie pleads not guilty to abetting him.
Jan 7: Kuala Lumpur City Hall civil engineering and urban transportation senior deputy director Sabudin Mohd Salleh, 58, is charged with accepting more than RM1 million in 2018. He faces six counts of receiving RM1.08 million to grant maintenance projects under his purview.
The Palace of Justice in Putrajaya.
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): 2020 has been an eventful year for the country s judiciary, with verdicts delivered for several high-profile cases – the most prominent involving former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Other court cases that took centre stage this year involved the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, including corruption, criminal breach of trust (CBT) and money laundering trials involving prominent leaders in the country.
On July 28, former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak was sentenced to 12 years jail and a RM210mil fine by High Court Judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali after finding him guilty on seven charges of CBT, money laundering and abuse of position involving RM42mil of SRC International Sdn Bhd funds.