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- Be wary of individuals posing as TNB staff
- PM: Support paralympic athletes
- Businessman loses RM925,000 in ‘slimy’ diesel deal with 5 foreigners
| Be wary of individuals posing as TNB staff Posted: 27 Aug 2012 07:36 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) has advised the public to be wary of individuals posing as TNB staff. This follows a robbery committed by two men who posed as TNB personnel to gain entry to a victim's home in Johor Baru recently. According to a TNB statement, its staff would only enter the compound of a house after obtaining the owner's permission and upon showing a TNB personal identification card. "All TNB personnel carrying out duties at the premises of consumers are required to wear the company's red t-shirt with TNB logo, and a blue jacket with a red embroidered TNB logo, bearing the name of the personnel," it said. Consumers are requested to contact the nearest TNB office if approached by suspicious individuals claiming to be TNB personnel. - Bernama |
| PM: Support paralympic athletes Posted: 27 Aug 2012 06:29 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Monday called on all Malaysians to get together and support the Malaysian paralympic athletes competing at the London Paralympics. "Let's fully support our Malaysian paralympic athletes and cheer for these brave sportsmen and women. All the best!" he said in his twitter posting. Malaysia is represented by 23 athletes competing in eight sports, namely archery, athletics, cycling, ping pong, powerlifting, swimming, wheelchair fencing and sailing. On July 11, Najib had announced that the gold medal winner in the Paralympics will receive incentives of RM300,000, silver (RM200,000) and bronze (RM100,000). Najib also said that the government would also give recognition to the national athletes by conferring them with national and state awards. - Bernama Related Stories: |
| Businessman loses RM925,000 in ‘slimy’ diesel deal with 5 foreigners Posted: 27 Aug 2012 06:24 AM PDT IPOH: A businessman realised it too late that five potential 'customers' had turned out to be as slimy as the diesel he had sold them. Earlier, the 53-year-old parted with 100,000 metric tonnes of diesel after receiving a RM925,000 bank draft from the five who had arrived from Indonesia for the transaction. Just when he thought he had secured a good deal, the businessman discovered to his dismay that the bank draft was a fake. Perak police chief Datuk Shukri Dahlan said the victim lodged a police report on Aug 23, after a bank here confirmed that the RM925,000 bank draft was a fake. He said, acting on the report, a police team raided a hotel here early Monday morning, and detained five Indonesians to facilitate investigations into the scam. He said initial investigations revealed the suspects, aged between 25 and 45, entered the country, using social visit pass. Meanwhile, the police have detained two Pakistanis and a Lebanese for their alleged involvement in dealing with fake Indian Rupees The suspects, aged 22, 31 and 42, were picked up by a team of Commercial Crime Investigation Department personnel between Aug 23 and 25. Shukri said two of the suspects were nabbed when they went to a money-changer here to change fake Rupees into Malaysian Ringgit. The other was picked up in Kuala Lumpur, in a follow-up operation. The police seized 402 fake pieces of 1,000 Rupee notes, three cell phones, two Pakistan passports and a black bag from the suspects. - Bernama |
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