Lawyer for ex-home minister’s aide questions witness over ‘commission’ references
Sayed Amir Muzzakkir Al Sayed Mohamad’s counsel asserts that NXG managing director Wan Azhar Yusof intentionally used the term ‘commission’ instead of ‘advisory fee’ in his witness statement.
On May 23, 2024, Sayed Amir Muzzakkir Al Sayed Mohamad was charged with two counts of receiving RM350,000 in bribes from Wan Azhar Yusof, the managing director of Nexuscorpgroup Sdn Bhd. The offences allegedly took place at the office of Yayasan Tanah Aku in Solaris Dutamas on December 4, 2020, and at NXG's office in Shah Alam's Section 7 industrial area on December 16, 2020.
The charges were brought under Section 16(a)(A) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act 2009, with penalties including up to 20 years imprisonment and a fine of up to RM10,000 for each bribe. The defence counsel, Yaacob Sam, questioned Wan Azhar about discrepancies between his witness statement and the agreement, specifically the absence of an "advisory fee" in the statement but its presence in the agreement.
Wan Azhar disputed changing the term from "advisory fee" to "commission" in his statement, arguing that he did not intentionally alter the term to justify the investigation against Sayed under MACC Act 2009 Section 3.
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