{"id":6398,"date":"2011-07-05T14:32:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T06:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2011\/07\/abdullah-denies-attempted-bribe-in-aussie-report\/"},"modified":"2011-07-05T14:32:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T06:32:48","slug":"abdullah-denies-attempted-bribe-in-aussie-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/abdullah-denies-attempted-bribe-in-aussie-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdullah denies attempted bribe in Aussie report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/paklah-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" style=\"float: right;\" \/>KUALA LUMPUR: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today denied allegation of an  attempted bribe when he was the prime minister and finance minister in  2003 as reported by an Australian newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no truth whatsoever in the allegation as I cannot possibly  remember of anyone approaching me with any offer,\u201d he said, according to  a Bernama report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf indeed there was any, I would have unhesitatingly lodged an  immediate report to the regulatory authorities including he police for  follow-up action,\u201d Abdullah said in a statement here today.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, The Age Newspaper reported today that the Reserve Bank of  Australia\u2019s (RBA) banknote firms are suspected of attempting to bribe  Abdullah in order to get his help to win a A$31 million currency  contract.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the Australian federal police have gathered  information about attempts to bribe Abdullah by Securency and Note  Printing Australia, which are respectively half and fully owned and  overseen by the RBA.<br \/> The report stated Abdullah is believed to have been involved in  approving the contract won by the RBA firms to supply Malaysia with its  polymer five ringgit note, which began circulating in 2004.-FMT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today denied allegation of an attempted bribe when he was the prime minister and finance minister in 2003 as reported by an Australian newspaper. \u201cThere is no truth whatsoever in the allegation as I cannot possibly remember of anyone approaching me with any offer,\u201d he said, according to a Bernama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}