A Court Clears a Mahathir Crony
Eric Chia, the hard-charging Chinese tycoon brought in by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to rescue the ill-fated national steelmaker Perwaja Steel and who ended up being indicted for embezzling 76.4 million ringgit from the vastly unprofitable project, escaped conviction in a Malaysian courtroom Tuesday, putting Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Bad…
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