JOHOR BARU: A former makeup artist was charged at a Sessions Court here with 12 counts of money laundering involving RM418,400 between 2018 to 2019. Tong Karen, 36, pleaded not guilty to the charges read out to her by a court interpreter before judge Datuk Ahmad Kamal Arifin Ismail. According to the charge sheets, the accused was said to have transferred money from illegal activities from several saving accounts into her fixed deposit account between April 2018 to May 2019, amounting to RM365,000. Tong was also alleged to have transferred money worth RM15,000 as a deposit to buy a Mini Cooper...