Phone and text scams have mushroomed during the pandemic. Messages such as those from fraudulent couriers that ask for administrative fees to deliver non-existent parcels surged by 83 per cent in the past year. This may sound a slightly esoteric form of fraud but it has been fueled by the …
Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, the Minister in charge of Malaysia’s vaccination programme, spoke to us on 23 July. This is update on the state of Malaysia’s vaccination programme. Malaysia Watch Could you tell us about Malaysia’s vaccination progress please? KJ: We hope to have 40% of the population fully vaccinated by …
COVID-19 business email compromise fraud Companies seeking to buy protective material against Covid have paid over €1 million to an African gang working on behalf of Romanian gangsters. The gang used bogus emails to persuade the companies to pay money upfront for goods that never arrived. On 10 August, 23 …
The details of an extraordinary deal for the sale of ventilators to Hungary have been revealed to journalists in Malaysia and Hungary. Under pressure of pandemic, the Malaysian businessman Vinod Sekhar sold at least 800 ventilators to the Government of Hungary for a figure close to $60m. It has been …
Quick rich merchants have profiteered from the vaccine market as never before during the pandemic. Take the case of Hungarian company Danubia Pharma. This is owned (according to Direct36 which broke the story) by a private limited company called Syntonite Med which is owned by a small time consultant with …
UK Border officials find a hundred fake test Coronavirus certificate a day, a UK Border official has said. But many slip through the net because they are unable to check them. This is especially the case when they are written in a foreign language. Lucy Moreton, professional officer for the …
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U.S. DOJ, Goldman worked to keep evidence from banker in 1MDB case, his lawyer allegesPublished 24-Mar-2021 by Nick KochanTRRI News A lawyer for a former Goldman Sachs executive alleged in court that the U.S. Justice Department and Goldman Sachs have formed an agreement to keep electronic devices used by Tim …
Dubai: A man has been accused of forging a COVID-19 test to leave the country through Dubai International Airport. Staff at Dubai International Airport in December 2020 found a 32-year-old Pakistani with a PCR test result that was out of date. He was told to take a new test. The …
Doubts hit $1 billion IPIC settlement in 1MDB dispute By Nick Kochan Malaysia was widely expected to announce a settlement close to $1 billion of the long-running dispute with the United Arab Emirates government over the role of IPIC, the Gulf state’s sovereign wealth fund, in the 1MDB scandal, sources …
