{"id":336457,"date":"2020-02-07T11:16:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=336457"},"modified":"2020-02-07T11:16:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:46:13","slug":"airasia-probe-payments-in-high-value-deals-not-a-bribe-says-mahathir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airasia-probe-payments-in-high-value-deals-not-a-bribe-says-mahathir\/","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia probe: Payments in high-value deals not a bribe, says Mahathir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday payments received to offset the costs of a high-value order could not be constituted as a bribe.<\/p>\n<p>Mahathir was replying to questions by reporters on the controversial sponsorship deal that executives of Malaysia&#8217;s AirAsia Group Bhd struck with the budget carrier&#8217;s sole plane supplier Airbus.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said last week that the European aircraft manufacturer paid a bribe of $50 million to executives of AirAsia and its long-haul arm AirAsia X to win plane orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday payments received to offset the costs of a high-value order could not be constituted as a bribe. Mahathir was replying to questions by reporters on the controversial sponsorship deal that executives of Malaysia&#8217;s AirAsia Group Bhd struck with the budget carrier&#8217;s sole plane supplier Airbus. Britain&#8217;s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said last week that the European aircraft manufacturer paid a bribe of $50 million to executives of AirAsia and its long-haul arm AirAsia X to win plane orders.<\/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-336457","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\/336457","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=336457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}