Deputy Finance Minister Ahmad Maslan wrote to heads of GLCs to spend more of their advertisement budget at Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia and Berita Harian.
Conflict of interest case in which finance ministry requesting formally that Government Linked Companies spend advertising money on newspapers owned by the political parties of the current federal government (BN).
Timeline
- 2013-11-10 - Deputy minister’s directive to GLCs to advertise in Utusan Malaysia unacceptable, says opposition MP - Malaysian Insider
Directly implicated: Ahmad Maslan
Indirectly Implicated: Najib Razak