Malaysia Cabinet Minister Denies Receiving $2.4 Million Bribe

A senior leader in Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s party denied soliciting and receiving a bribe from businessman Victor Chin as the fallout from the so-called corporate mafia scandal intensifies in the Southeast Asian country.

“I never met him,” Ramanan Ramakrishnan, Malaysia’s human resources minister, said in a press briefing outside Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. “I don’t know him. I’ve never spoken to him. He wants to break the party.”