{
  "id": 1979023,
  "title": "Bekas setpol Hamzah desak kongsi fi RM19 juta, saksi beritahu mahkamah",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/bekas-setpol-hamzah-desak-kongsi-fi-rm19-juta-saksi-beritahu-mahkamah-1979023",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-19T15:56:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today-freemalays",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2026/08/19/bekas-setpol-hamzah-desak-kongsi-fi-rm19-juta-saksi-beritahu-mahkamah"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Saya Al Sayed Mohamad, a former senior politician, appeared before the Sessions Court facing three counts of corruption linked to a contract worth around RM19 million for RMPNet services. The contract pertains to maintenance, servicing, and providing infrastructure, servers, software, and user system radios for the police force. The court heard that Sayed Amir regularly pressured a former deputy minister, Hamzah Zainudin, to allocate a portion of the RM19 million from the contract he secured. Mohd Khairi Mat Jahya, the managing director of Al Khairi Group Berhad, revealed that Sayed Amir wanted the share because he claimed to have introduced the project to the owner of Nexuscorpgroup Sdn Bhd, Wan Azhar. \"Sayed Amir also stated he had helped Nexuscorpgroup secure the RMPNet project,\" the witness said during his testimony at the ongoing corruption trial.",
  "summary": "Khairi Mat Jahya berkata bekas setiausaha politik, Sayed Amir Muzzakkir Al Sayed Mohamad tuntutan RM9 juta kerana bantu dapat tender polis.",
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        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Bekas setpol Hamzah desak kongsi fi RM19 juta, saksi beritahu mahkamah",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/bekas-setpol-hamzah-desak-kongsi-fi-rm19-juta-saksi-beritahu-mahkamah",
        "published": "2026-08-19T15:56:43.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}