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‘MACC chief handed 1MDB probe to US in 2015’, and 9 news from yesterday

KINI ROUNDUP | Key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

1. The then MACC chief Abu Kassim Mohamed had supposedly passed 1MDB investigation papers to US authorities in 2015 to ensure the probe would go on, said International Anti-Corruption Conference council member Michael Hershman.

2. Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad will serve as acting education minister until the vacancy is filled.

3. Ex-judges opined that the release of former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak’s tapped phone calls would prolong the ongoing 1MDB-related trials, and could amount to sub judice.

4. The judiciary would ask inspector-general of police Abdul Hamid Bador on the status of police investigations of Court of Appeal judge Hamid Sultan Abu Backer’s allegations of judicial misconduct.

5. Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said ministers would continue to use Proton Perdana cars as their official cars, not the Toyota Vellfire.

6. A report claimed that the targeted fuel subsidy scheme originally slated for implementation at the start of this year had been delayed due to problems registering M40 (middle 40 percent) income earners and the rolling out subsidy cards.

7. Keranji assemblyperson Chong Zhemin is unfazed after MCA issued a legal letter demanding that he apologises for his allegations regarding the Kampar Hospital project.

8. The move by a school for stateless children in Sabah to install water tanks in the school ended up supplying water for about 15,175 residents in three villages.

9. Workers at the embattled glove maker WRP Asia were only paid RM500 of the salaries owned, despite a cash injection by shareholders and promises to pay their salaries in full.

10. Two migrant children in Sabah have been found to be infected with polio, bringing the total number of recent cases of the disease to three.

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