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Saturday, 27 Feb 2021 08:11 PM MYT
BY ASHMAN ADAM
Former governor of Bank Negara Malaysia Tan Sri Zeti Akhtar Aziz (left) has not responded to allegations concerning a company owned by her husband and son. Picture by Miera Zulyana
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 Singaporean police had tipped off Malaysia’s central bank of suspicious transactions involving a company owned by the husband and son of former Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) governor Tan Sri Zeti Akhtar Aziz, business paper
The Edge reported today.
According to the report, the republic’s Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) had shared this information with BNM in 2015 and 2016, when Zeti was still its governor.
S pore alerted BNM on Jho Low transfers to Zeti s husband s company malaysiakini.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from malaysiakini.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
According to the European Union s law enforcement agency Europol, a suspect had taken the identity of a legitimate company and advertised the fast delivery of surgical masks and hand sanitisers. Once the pharmaceutical company transferred the funds to a bank in Singapore, the items were never delivered and the supplier became uncontactable, said the agency in a statement.
It added that the EU authorities informed their Singaporean counterparts and asked them to act swiftly. Having previously received a Suspicious Transaction Report from the recipient bank, Singaporean authorities were able to block part of the payment and identify the man who had received the funds, and subsequently arrested him on March 25 (2020), said Europol.
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SINGAPORE: A man set to be charged with money-laundering offences linked to a S$10.2 million COVID-19 scam did not turn up in court on Wednesday (Feb 24) as he developed a fever and has to go for a swab test.