A Malaysian journalist was charged in court for allegedly receiving a bribe in return for backing off an investigation into an alleged migrant worker trafficking syndicate.

Malaysiakini journalist B. Nantha Kumar pleaded not guilty in the Shah Alam Sessions Court on Friday (March 14) to a charge of receiving a bribe from a Pakistani national last month. Read more at WAT

He was accused of receiving bribes from a Pakistani national, in exchange for removing an uploaded article on the Malaysiakini portal and refraining from further writing about a foreign worker agency allegedly involved in a syndicate.

B Nantha Kumar is accused of receiving the bribe from a Pakistani national as an inducement not to upload or publish articles about a syndicate involving foreign workers.