KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court right here was advised on Monday (May 9) that there was adequate evidence to cost Kinabatangan Member of Parliament Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin and his spouse Datin Seri Zizie Izette Abdul Samad with corruption involving RM2.8mil.
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) investigating officer (IO) Mohd Haris Ibrahim, 42, mentioned he really useful to the prosecution to cost the couple based mostly on paperwork obtained and witness statements (recorded by the MACC).
“The quantity really useful for the cost in opposition to Datuk Seri Bung Moktar and Datin Seri Zizie Izette is RM2.8mil,” he mentioned throughout the examination-in-chief by deputy public prosecutor Law Chin How within the listening to of a corruption case involving Bung Moktar and Zizie Izette over a Felcra funding in Public Mutual Berhad unit trusts.
The MACC senior superintendent mentioned that based mostly on the investigation findings, he had really useful to the prosecution that Bung Moktar be charged below Section 17(a) of the MACC Act 2009, whereas Zizie Izette be charged with abetting him below Section 28(1) of the identical Act.
When requested whether or not the problem of RM2.8mil had ever been raised as an “introduction price” to Zizie Izette earlier than the cost was proposed in opposition to the couple, the final and twenty seventh prosecution witnesses mentioned: “Never.”
Law: When did you hear that the RM2.8mil was an “introduction price” for Datin Seri Zizie Izette?
Mohd Haris: I heard in regards to the “introduction price” in February 2021 after being knowledgeable by the IO who changed me on this case, that’s senior superintendent Mohd Ihsan.
In an earlier continuing, belief fund marketing consultant Norhaili Ahmad Mokhtar advised the courtroom that Zizie Izette deserved to obtain an introduction price of RM2.8mil because the actress had launched her husband to Felcra to make investments RM150mil within the Public Mutual unit trusts.
Mohd Haris additionally advised the courtroom that Norhaili and an funding agent, Madhi Abdul Hamid, had by no means been pressured or threatened by the MACC after they had their statements recorded on the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya between 2016 and 2017.
When requested by Law whether or not the 2 brokers had ever complained something to the MACC when their statements had been being recorded, Mohd Haris mentioned, no.
On May 3, 2019, Bung Moktar, 64, pleaded not responsible to two expenses of accepting bribes amounting to RM2.2mil and RM262,500 as an inducement to get hold of Felcra’s approval to make investments RM150mil in Public Mutual unit trusts.
Bung Moktar, who was the non-executive chairman of Felcra on the time, was accused of accepting bribes from Madhi by means of Zizie Izette at Public Bank’s Taman Melawati department right here between 12.30pm and 5pm on June 12, 2015.
He additionally pleaded not responsible to accepting an RM335,500 money bribe from Norhaili below the title of Zizie Izette for related causes, on the identical place on June 19, 2015, whereas Zizie Izette, 44, pleaded not responsible to three expenses of abetting her husband within the matter on the identical place, date and time.
The listening to continues on Tuesday (May 10). – Bernama
