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Anti-kleptocracy rally in works; Jasa says return assets to Jho Low

KINI ROUNDUP | Here are the key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

Anti-kleptocracy rally planned

Pakatan Harapan announced that it will be organising an anti-kleptocracy rally in September in response to the US Department of Justice's third civil forfeiture suit, which put the funds allegedly misappropriated from 1MDB at US$4.5 billion.

PAS said it had yet to receive a formal invitation to join the anti-kleptocracy rally and will adopt a "wait and see" approach, like it did with the Bersih 5 rally.

Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak panned Harapan for the planned rally, stating that they should first solve their own internal woes.

Jasa suggests assets be returned to Jho Low

The government's propaganda arm Special Affairs Department (Jasa) said Australian model Miranda Kerr should have returned around US$8 million in jewellery to Penang-born businessperson Jho Low instead of the US Department of Justice as there was "no evidence" that they were purchased using stolen 1MDB funds.

It also claimed that there was no proof that the wife of Malaysian Official 1 received any jewellery allegedly acquired using stolen 1MDB funds, calling it merely a "story" by complainants.

US-based The Hollywood Reporter raised the possibility that the DOJ may also seize the rights to Red Granite Pictures' remake of the 1974 prison-escape movie "Papillon" after having seized two other films, "Dumber and Dumber To" and "Daddy's Home", allegedly funded using stolen 1MDB money.

DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang branded attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali as the "most political" attorney-general in history after the Apandi accused the DOJ of being "politically motivated" action over 1MDB.

US upgrades M'sia in human trafficking report

The US State Department upgraded Malaysia to Tier 2 from the Tier 2 watch list in its latest Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP).

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak hailed the upgrade as evidence that Malaysia's efforts to combat human trafficking are bearing fruit.

Other Kinibites

Fuel price declined for the fifth consecutive week, with RON95 and RON97 going down by two sen per litre while diesel fell by four sen per litre.

Deputy Transport Minister Ab Aziz Kaprawi said the government planned to install around 100 Automated Enforcement System (AES) cameras nationwide beginning next year.

Former minister Zaid Ibrahim said he was not against prayers after earning flak for criticising an AirAsia X pilot who asked passengers, on board an aircraft facing engine issues, to pray.

Sarawak Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Minister Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said it was not up to his federal counterpart Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz to decide the date to implement the Tourism Tax as the power lies with the finance minister.

A new global cyber attack emerged after the WannaCry ransomware attack last month, affecting more than 300,000 computers.

Looking ahead

Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P Ramasamy will be holding a press conference on the termination of an Indian food operator at a polytechnic for allegedly not being syariah-complaint.

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