Ministry to hire Swedish lawyers


PUTRAJAYA: The Tourism and Culture Ministry will engage Swedish lawyers to keep a watching brief on behalf of the ministry in the trial of the Malaysian couple charged with abusing their children there.

Its minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said Tourism Malaysia director-general Datuk Mirza Mohammad Taiyab would fly there a few days before the trial begins on Feb 18 to engage the lawyers.

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