{"id":2152,"date":"2019-04-01T23:14:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2019-04-01T23:21:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:21:35","slug":"no-interference-with-macc-investigating-ministers-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=2152","title":{"rendered":"No interference with MACC investigating minister&#8217;s aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR &#8211; Minister of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Dato&#8217; Salahuddin Ayub in a statement today vowed that he will not interfere with Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency (MACC) after news broke that a minister&#8217;s aide had been nabbed for accepting a bribe in the form of a luxury watch worth some RM28,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish to stress that I would not interfere in MACC investigation and would allow the law to take its course. He too is a Malaysian who is subject to the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hold fast to the principle of rule of law and I\u2019m confident MACC would conduct its investigation fairly and independently,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>MACC detains minister\u2019s aide for accepting luxury watch worth RM28,000<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>News agency BERNAMA reported that a source from MACC stated that a 47 year old man was taken into custody at 5pm after he came to give his statement at the MACC headquarters today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man was believed to have accepted the luxury watch as an inducement to enable a project developer to be awarded projects under ministry\u2019s purview,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>The case is being investigated under Section16(a) (A) of the MACC Act 2009.<\/p>\n<p>-NMT<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR &#8211; Minister of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Dato&#8217; Salahuddin Ayub in a statement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23],"tags":[818,5124,5125,5123],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-scandal","tag-macc","tag-minister-of-agriculture","tag-ministers-aide","tag-salahuddin-ayub"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.9 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No interference with MACC investigating minister&#039;s aide<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=2152\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No interference with MACC investigating minister&#039;s aide\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KUALA LUMPUR &#8211; 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