Bar Council admits receiving grant from OSF


KUALA LUMPUR: The Bar Council has conceded that it received US$15,000 from George Soros' Open Society Foundations (OSF) as a grant for a study on migrant workers in Malaysia.

Bar Council Migrants, Refugees and Immigration Affairs Committee chairman Datuk Seri M. Rama­chel­vam revealed that the grant was received on Jan 7, 2015.

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