A former Malacca chief minister’s ex-aide has pleaded not guilty at the Malacca Sessions Court today to 12 counts of accepting bribes totalling RM408,736 in 2017 and 2018.

On the first count, the accused - 52-year-old Rosli Hasan - was charged with accepting a bribe of RM323,736 in the form of renovation work on the house belonging to his wife in Taman Pokok Mangga between May 2017 and February 2018.

On the 11 other charges...