A former minister in Malaysia was sentenced to one year imprisonment on Monday after being found guilty of corruption by the High Court in Kuala Lumpur.
Tengku Adnan Mansor was accused of taking 2 million ringgit (493,000 dollars) from a businessman in 2016, when he was federal territories minister.
The sentence, which includes a fine of the same amount as the alleged bribe, has been suspended pending an appeal.
Tengku is also the treasurer of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the country’s biggest political party.
Also on Monday, former Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng was told he will face trial in June 2021 based on allegations of corruption relating to an undersea road tunnel project linking Penang Island, a popular tourist destination, with the peninsular Malaysian mainland.
The charges in Lim’s trial date to his tenure as the head of Penang’s regional administration, before the opposition coalition he remains a leading member of won a shock victory in 2018 national elections, ousting the UMNO alliance led by then Premier Najib Razak.
Najib was sentenced to 12 years in jail for corruption earlier this year, though his sentence has also been suspended, pending appeal.
He faces four other trials related to corruption and abuse of office at 1MDB, a state development fund he helped set up.
