A former director of a telecommunications company was charged at the Kuala Lumpur Criminal Sessions Court today for offering an RM8 million bribe to a bank chief in 2012. The bribe was allegedly intended to secure approval for a RM400 million loan facility for a fibre optic project. The suspect, a man in his 50s, also faces charges for submitting documents containing false particulars. 

In a separate legal development, a cleaning services company director pleaded not guilty in Penang to nine counts of failing to pay nearly RM40,000 in service tax and penalties between 2021 and 2024. Furthermore, tragedy struck on the Seremban-Port Dickson Expressway yesterday evening when a five-year-old girl was killed in a three-vehicle collision involving a PLUS emergency response lorry and a patrol vehicle.