Flouting or violating Covid-19 laws and regulations

Public officials and PEPs caught flouting or violating Covid-19 laws and regulations such as quarantine or movement restrictions

Disclosure Timeline

22 Oct, 2020 - Rule of Law Demands Ministry of Health to Provide Explanation on Issue of Minister’s Quarantine (Salim Bashir President Malaysian Bar)
Malaysian Bar comments that If Minister Khairuddin is in fact exempted from a Quarantine Order, the authorities must be able to demonstrate what this exemption is, the absence of which would create a dangerous precedent that is arbitrary in nature

Directly implicated: Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali

22 Aug, 2020 - Pressure mounts for Khairuddin to quit after only 'slap on the wrist' fine (Malaysiakini)
Pressure is mounting for Plantations and Commodities Minister Khairuddin Aman Razali to tender his resignation after he got off with only a RM1,000 fine for flouting mandatory Covid-19 quarantine regulations.

Directly implicated: Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali

Disclosing: Teresa Kok

05 May, 2020 - Zahid’s daughter, son-in-law plead guilty, fined RM800 for breaching MCO (Emmaneul Santa Maria Chin, Malay Mail)
PUTRAJAYA, May 5 — Datuk Nurulhidayah Ahmad Zahid and her husband, Datuk Saiful Nizam Mohd Yusoff, both received a fine today after admitting to breaching the movement control order (MCO) before the Magistrates Court here.

Directly implicated: Nurulhidayah Ahmad Zahid , Saiful Nizam Mohd Yusoff

28 Apr, 2020 - MCO violation: Deputy health minister, exco plead guilty, fined RM1,000 (Malaysiakini)
Deputy Health Minister Noor Azmi Ghazali and Perak executive council member Razman Zakaria pleaded guilty to a charge of violating the movement control order (MCO) in Perak

Directly implicated: Noor Azmi Ghazali , Razman Zakaria

Notes

Khairuddin Aman Razali

Plantations and Commodity Minister Khairuddin Aman Razali violated quarantine procedures August 7th 2020, after going for overseas trip to Turkey, and returning to Parliament without undergoing mandatory 14 day quarantine. Unresolved issues include the status of his family and staff that also accompanied him.

Nurulhidayah Ahmad Zahid

According to the charge sheet, Nurulhidayah daughter of UMNO President Zahid Hamidi and her husband Saiful Nizam Mohd Yusoff committed the offence of breaching MCO after travelling from Jalan Batu Nyaman Country Heights in Kajang, Selangor, to the Environmental Department office located in Putrajaya on April 20.

Noor Azmi bin Ghazali

Deputy Health Minister Noor Azmi Ghazali pleaded guilty to a charge of violating MCO in Perak

Razman Zakaria

Razman bin Zakaria is a Malaysian politician and currently serves as Perak State Executive Councillor, pleaded guilty to a charge of violating MCO in Perak

Subitems

Pressure mounts for Khairuddin to quit after only 'slap on the wrist' fine (Issue Source)

Zahid’s daughter, son-in-law plead guilty, fined RM800 for breaching MCO (Issue Source)

MCO violation: Deputy health minister, exco plead guilty, fined RM1,000 (Issue Source)

Rule of Law Demands Ministry of Health to Provide Explanation on Issue of Minister’s Quarantine (Issue Source)