JANUARY
Jan 2: Kinabatangan member of parliament Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin and wife Datin Seri Zizie Izette's corruption trial starts at the Sessions Court. Bung is charged with three counts of receiving RM2.8 million in bribes to obtain approval for Felcra Bhd to make a RM150 million investment in Public Mutual Bhd. His wife, actress and producer Zizie pleads not guilty to abetting him.
Jan 7: Kuala Lumpur City Hall civil engineering and urban transportation senior deputy director Sabudin Mohd Salleh, 58, is charged with accepting more than RM1 million in 2018. He faces six counts of receiving RM1.08 million to grant maintenance projects under his purview.
Jan 13: Knowledge Management Foundation director Datuk Abdul Rahman Mohamed Shariff is charged with misappropriating funds amounting to more than RM28,000 to purchase cigars for himself and a stove for his wife in 2018. Rahman, who is also Education Malaysia Global Services chairman, is also accused of criminal breach of trust when he purchased a Rational Combi Oven and Ultravent Plus Exhaust Hood worth more than RM25,000 using the foundation's monies for his wife's company, Coffee Sandwich Revival Sdn Bhd, on Dec 13, 2018.
Jan 15: Singer Zarith Sofia Mohd Yasin, who allegedly kept a sun bear cub that she allegedly thought was a dog, in her condominium last year is fined RM27,000 by the Sessions Court. She pleads not guilty to keeping and confining the endangered species at her home in Desa Pandan.
Jan 21: Two Umno leaders are charged at the Sessions Court with money laundering after failing to declare to the Inland Revenue Board monies purportedly received from the party's former president, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, in 2013. Former deputy finance minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan and former Felda chairman Tan Sri Shahrir Abdul Samad plead not guilty.
Jan 28: An underaged accused in the murder of 23 occupants of Pusat Tahfiz Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah three years ago is ordered to enter his defence. Another accused however, who is also jointly charged with the offence, is freed. The two boys, who were 16 when they allegedly committed the crime, are jointly charged with the murder and causing the death of 23 individuals at the tahfiz centre. In the incident at 5.15am on Sept 14, 21 students and two teachers died.
FEBRUARY
Feb 5: Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor's corruption trial involving a RM1.25 billion project to instal solar energy system in 369 schools in Sarawak starts before High Court judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan. Rosmah, 69, is facing three counts of soliciting RM187.5 million and receiving a bribe of RM6.5 million from Jepak Holdings Sdn Bhd managing director Saidi Abang Samsudin, through her former aide, Datuk Rizal Mansor, for projects to provide solar energy to the schools.
MAY
May 5: Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's daughter and son-in-law are fined RM800 each for breaching the Movement Control Order (MCO). Datuk Nurul Hidayah Ahmad Zahid and her husband, Datuk Saiful Nizam Mohd Yusoff, plead guilty.
JUNE
June 18: A couple charged with siphoning more than RM600,000 from Yayasan Nurul Yakeen, belonging to Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. Mimi Khairani Baharudin, 35, a former executive of YNY, and her husband Mohd Shaufik Ariffin, 37, claim trial to money laundering offences when they are jointly charged at the Sessions Court.
JULY
July 6: Najib's son, Datuk Mohd Nazifuddin, was ordered by the High Court to pay RM37,644,810.73 in unpaid taxes for the years 2011 to 2017 to the Inland Revenue Board after a summary judgment was entered in the board's tax arrears suit against him. He is appealing against the decision.
July 10: The six murderers of deputy public prosecutor Datuk Anthony Kevin Morais are sentenced to hang after the High Court found them guilty of the murder. Army pathologist Colonel Dr R. Kunaseegaran, 55, R. Dinishwaran, 26, A.K. Thinesh Kumar, 25, M. Vishwanath, 28, S. Nimalan 25, and S. Ravi Chandaran, 47, are convicted of killing Morais on Sept 4 five years ago.
July 28: Najib is sentenced to 12 years' jail and fined RM210 million by the High Court after he was found guilty of seven charges related to the misappropriation of RM42 million of SRC International Sdn Bhd funds. For the three criminal breach of trust and three money laundering offences, he is sentenced to 10 years' jail for each count, while for the abuse of position case, he is sentenced to 12 years' jail and fined RM210 million. The sentences are ordered to run concurrently.
AUGUST
Aug 7: Former finance minister and DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng is charged at the KL Sessions Court with soliciting a bribe from a company which was awarded the contract to undertake the controversial RM6.3 billion Penang undersea tunnel project. He pleads not guilty.
Aug 10: Guan Eng is charged at the Butterworth Sessions Court in Penang with abusing his power to obtain a bribe of RM3. 3 million in connection with the Penang undersea tunnel project. He pleads not guilty.
Aug 11: Guan Eng, his wife Betty Chew and her business associate Phang Li Koon are charged at the Butterworth Sessions Court in Penang with abuse of power, money laundering and abetment in relation to the award of a RM11.6 million project for foreign workers' dorms to a company linked to Phang. They plead not guilty to the charges.
Aug 17: A 19-year old teenager was ordered by the KL High Court to be detained at the pleasure of the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong after he is found guilty of the murder of 23 people in a fire at Darul Ittifaqiyah Tahfiz three years ago.
Aug 19: Mohd Saifullah Mohd Minggu @ Mohd Hisham, an ex-private secretary to a former tourism and culture minister, is charged at the KL Sessions Court with 18 counts of soliciting and receiving bribes totalling RM3.1 million to help a company win the Tourism Malaysia creative, branding and advertising space tenders. His fiancee, Nurfadziana Abdul Kadir, also faces a charge of abetting him and accepting RM232,000. They plead not guilty.
Aug 24: The start of the inquest proceedings into the death of Irish-French teenager Nora Anne Quoirin at the Coroner's Court in the Seremban Court Complex, Negri Sembilan.
SEPTEMBER
Sept 11: Guan Eng is charged at the Butterworth Sessions Court with two counts of misappropriation of property by disposing two plots of land worth RM208 million belonging to the Penang government to two companies linked to the controversial Penang Undersea Tunnel project.
Sept 15: Four company directors and a workshop manager are charged at the Selayang Sessions Court with two counts in relation to the Sungai Gong pollution that led to water cuts affecting millions in the Klang Valley. They plead not guilty.
Sept 17: An ex-minister's former private secretary, Mohd Saifullah Mohd Minggu @ Mohd Hisham, is charged at the Shah Alam Sessions Court with six additional counts of soliciting and accepting gratification totalling RM106,500 to help a company secure an advertising tender under the Tourism, Arts and Culture Ministry. He pleads not guilty.
Sept 23: The tax suit filed by the Inland Revenue Board against former Federal Territories minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor for the recovery of RM57.17 million in tax arrears is settled amicably with a consent judgment recorded by the High Court. However, the terms of the settlement are not disclosed.
Sept 24: Rozita Mohamad Ali, a 46-year-old housewife, who made headlines for abusing her Indonesian maid in 2016, is put behind bars after the Court of Appeal dismisses her bid to set aside her eight-year jail sentence for committing the offence. She is initially charged with attempted murder at the Petaling Jaya Sessions Court but it is later reduced to voluntarily causing grievous hurt to which she pleads guilty. She is let off with a good behaviour bond of five years with a surety of RM20,000, which results in a public outcry.
OCTOBER
Oct 6: The start of the trial of former Malaysian External Intelligence Organisation chief Datuk Hasanah Abdul Hamid, who is charged with criminal breach of trust of public funds amounting to RM50.4 million. The High Court allows the prosecution's application to hold in-camera proceedings for 11 of 37 witnesses in the interest of national security.
Oct 13: Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali filed a RM2.2 million suit against Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and the government, seeking a declaration that his termination as attorney-general two years ago by the former prime minister was unlawful.
Oct 15: Mohd Azhar Che Mat Dali, the former political secretary to former defence minister Mohamad Sabu, is charged at the KL Sessions Court with five counts of soliciting and receiving a total of RM6.3 million in bribes for a defence ministry project. He claimed trial to the charges. The offences under Section 16(a)(B) that Azhar was charged with are punishable under Section 24 of the MACC Act, which carries a maximum jail term of 20 years, and a fine of not less than five times the value of the bribe or RM10,000, whichever is higher.
NOVEMBER
Nov 9: Four directors of a palm oil processing company were charged at the Selayang Sessions Court with releasing waste from the premises of their company, United Fineoleo Sdn Bhd, into a drain, which leads into Sungai Kundang, without licence.
DECEMBER
Dec 21: High Court sentences former minister Tengku Adnan to 12 months' jail and a RM2 million fine in his corruption case.
