Court allows Aker Solutions VP’s cheating case to be dropped

A senior vice-president of Norway’s largest oil services firm was granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) in a cheating case linked to the bumiputera status of its Malaysian unit.

The Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today allowed a preliminary objection raised by lawyers of Ahmad Hatta Kamaruzzaman, the senior vice-president of Aker Solutions Group, regarding the alleged defectiveness of the cheating charge.

Previously, it was reported Ahmad Hatta...