{"id":33654,"date":"2025-01-21T17:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=33654"},"modified":"2025-01-21T17:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:34:26","slug":"bribery-macc-records-statements-from-18-sabah-assemblymen-azam-baki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2025\/01\/21\/bribery-macc-records-statements-from-18-sabah-assemblymen-azam-baki\/","title":{"rendered":"Bribery: MACC records statements from 18 Sabah assemblymen\u2014Azam Baki"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KOTA KINABALU &#8211; A total of 18 Sabah assemblymen have come forward to provide statements in response to allegations surrounding a corruption scandal linked to a video that surfaced on a news portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported by Sinarharian, Tan Sri Azam Baki, the Chief Commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), announced that the investigation into this matter has reached completion, with the investigation papers now submitted to the Deputy Public Prosecutor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;However, the deputy public prosecutor has requested that the investigating officers gather additional statements, which are still pending finalisation,&#8221; he stated during a press conference at the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya on Tuesday, discussing the latest updates on ongoing investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He highlighted that the 18 Sabah Assembly Members provided their statements between November 2024 and early January of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Sabah police are also actively investigating this case, and the MACC is working in close collaboration with them, sharing information as part of the inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To date, the MACC has initiated two investigation papers under Section 16(a)(A) of the MACC Act 2009,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU &#8211; A total of 18 Sabah assemblymen have come forward to provide statements in response to allegations surrounding a corruption scandal linked to a video that surfaced on a news portal. As reported by Sinarharian, Tan Sri Azam Baki, the Chief Commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), announced that the investigation into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":33655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33656,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33654\/revisions\/33656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}