{"id":335561,"date":"2020-02-04T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T05:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=335561"},"modified":"2020-02-04T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T05:29:57","slug":"airasia-ceo-tony-fernandes-and-chairman-step-aside-as-airbus-bribery-allegations-probed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airasia-ceo-tony-fernandes-and-chairman-step-aside-as-airbus-bribery-allegations-probed\/","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes and chairman step aside as Airbus bribery allegations probed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR : AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes and Chairman Kamarudin Meranun will step aside for at least two months while the airline and authorities investigate allegations Airbus paid a bribe of $50 million to win plane orders from the company.<\/p>\n<p>A committee comprising the non-executive members of AirAsia&#8217;s board will review the allegations and take any necessary action, Asia&#8217;s biggest budget airline said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes, one of the aviation industry&#8217;s best known executives, and Kamarudin will remain advisers, however, &#8220;in view of the current difficult economic circumstances facing the airline industry&#8221;, the company added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR : AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes and Chairman Kamarudin Meranun will step aside for at least two months while the airline and authorities investigate allegations Airbus paid a bribe of $50 million to win plane orders from the company. A committee comprising the non-executive members of AirAsia&#8217;s board will review the allegations and take any necessary action, Asia&#8217;s biggest budget airline said on Monday. Fernandes, one of the aviation industry&#8217;s best known executives, and Kamarudin will remain advisers, however, &#8220;in view of the current difficult economic circumstances facing the airline industry&#8221;, the company added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335561","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}