💖 Please Subscribe: ✍ KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 21 — Johor Baru Umno chief Tan Sri Shahrir Samad was charged today with committing money-laundering by allegedly failing to disclose income after receiving a RM1 million cheque from former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in 2013. Shahrir, who was wearing a dark blue blazer, pleaded not guilty to the money-laundering charge when his case was brought up before Sessions Court judge Azura Alwi. Shahrir was accused of committing the money-laundering offence on April 25, 2014 at the Inland Revenue Board office’s Duta branch in Kuala Lumpur by allegedly not reporting his actual income for the year 2013 when he had allegedly failed to declare income received from Najib in the form of a RM1 million AmIslamic Bank cheque dated November 27, 2013 and which was deposited into Shahrir’s Public Islamic Bank account on November 28, 2013. The offence under Section 4(1)(a) of the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing Act 2001 carries a penalty of a maximum fine of RM5 m ...
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