{"id":335495,"date":"2020-02-04T10:18:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T04:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=335495"},"modified":"2020-02-04T10:31:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T05:01:52","slug":"airasias-fernandes-denies-link-to-bribery-scandal-after-stepping-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airasias-fernandes-denies-link-to-bribery-scandal-after-stepping-down\/","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia&#8217;s Fernandes denies link to bribery scandal after stepping down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AirAsia Group Bhd&#8217;s Tony Fernandes on Tuesday denied a now-defunct Formula 1 racing team formerly co-owned by him had any links to a bribery scandal involving the Malaysian airline&#8217;s only plane supplier, Airbus SE. <\/p>\n<p>Fernandes, one of the aviation industry&#8217;s best-known faces, on Monday stepped aside as chief executive of Asia&#8217;s biggest budget airline for at least two months, as authorities investigate allegations that Airbus paid a bribe of $50 million through sponsorship of the Caterham F1 team to win orders from AirAsia. <\/p>\n<p>AirAsia Chairman Kamarudin Meranun also stepped down along with Fernandes, though both will remain advisers. The AirAsia co-founders, who bought Caterham in 2011, issued a joint statement on Tuesday reiterating that they did nothing wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AirAsia Group Bhd&#8217;s Tony Fernandes on Tuesday denied a now-defunct Formula 1 racing team formerly co-owned by him had any links to a bribery scandal involving the Malaysian airline&#8217;s only plane supplier, Airbus SE. Fernandes, one of the aviation industry&#8217;s best-known faces, on Monday stepped aside as chief executive of Asia&#8217;s biggest budget airline for at least two months, as authorities investigate allegations that Airbus paid a bribe of $50 million through sponsorship of the Caterham F1 team to win orders from AirAsia. AirAsia Chairman Kamarudin Meranun also stepped down along with Fernandes, though both will remain advisers. The AirAsia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}