Kes rasuah: Pejabat bekas pegawai Hamzah terima RM350,000 sebenarnya kosong, hujah pembelaan
Pengarah urusan syarikat disoal balas berhubung dakwaan bayaran di Yayasan Tanah Aku, Publika, pada Disember 2020.
Kes rasuah: Ex-Hamzah official receives RM350,000, claimed to be empty, alibi defense
KUALA LUMPUR: The lawyer for former national minister Amir Muzzakkir Al Sayed Mohamad argued today that, in December 2020, the Yayasan Tanah Aku in Publika was not operating when the accused received RM350,000 in cash. The defense attorney questioned Nexuscorpgroup Sdn Bhd's Nexus chairman Wan Azhar Yusof about his witness's statement.
Wan Azhar had previously stated he had given RM100,000 and RM250,000 to Sayed on December 4 and 16, 2020 at the accused's office in Yayasan Tanah Aku. During cross-examination, Yaacob presented to Wan Azhar that the witness's premises were empty throughout 2020, and that the premises had been vacated by a Guaman firm by late 2019.
Wan Azhar denied that he could confirm this. Yaacob: Based on the owner of the relevant plot's testimony, before January 1, 2021, these units, along with adjacent units, were used by a Guaman firm, and the firm had vacated the premises by late 2019. There were no offices occupying these plots after that period until January 1, 2021.
Is that satisfactory? Wan Azhar: I only went to the premises on December 4 and 16, 2020. I only knew that the office operated on those two dates. I do not know any other dates. How did you bring the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Bureau (SPRM) to the office during the investigation? Wan Azhar said he met an SPRM official known as Rahim in Publika and showed him the office in Block B. However, Wan Azhar said he only remembered going there at the end of the week, but could not recall the exact date.
When asked what he saw when he arrived, the witness said the office was present but locked, and he did not see any signage outside the premises. He also stated that he did not remember whether the SPRM official took photos of the premises or not. Sayed, who was a former Hamzah Zainudin official, was charged on May 23, 2024 with two counts of receiving RM350,000 in cash from Wan Azhar to help NXG win the RMPNet services contract worth RM381,112,042.44.
The defense told Judge Mahkamah Sesyen Rosli Ahmad that they would re-examine the witness on the following day.
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