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Rizal Mansor, former special officer of former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak, who faces four counts of bribery involving a solar hybrid system project for rural schools in Sarawak, today called for a bribe. that his case be sent to the High Court of Kuala Lumpur.
Advocate Ridha Abdah Subri, representing Rizal, informed the case when he referred the case to the Court of Session Judge Rozina Ayob.
"We (the defense) need 10 days to file the notices of motion and the affidavit relating to this motion and I understand that the prosecution has no objections," he said. declared.
PDP Ahmad Akram Gharib confirmed that the prosecution did not oppose the lawyer's request to transfer the case, in accordance with article 417 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
"However, we were informed that the defense had not yet applied and we only knew it yesterday," he said.
Ahmad Akram said that after the transfer of the case to the High Court, the prosecution would request that the case be heard together with the case involving Rosmah Mansor, who was to do faced with corruption charges in the amount of RM 1.5 million in the same project.
Judge Rozina then gave the defense a week from that day to file the application and set December 12 for the case mention in order to know the status of the transfer request from the Case at the High Court.
On November 15, Rizal, 44, pleaded not guilty to four counts of soliciting and paying bribes totaling 5.5 million rupees for himself. and Rosmah for the supply of equipment and installation of the solar hybrid system for rural schools in Sarawak.
On the first charge, he was charged with requesting, on behalf of Rosmah, a sum of RMB 187,500,000, or 15% of the market value, from Saidi Abang Samsudin, General Manager of Jepak Holdings. Sdn Bhd.
This money encouraged Rosmah to help the company secure the integrated hybrid photovoltaic system project and maintain and operate the diesel generator sets for 369 rural schools in Sarawak, worth RM 1.25 billion. through direct negotiation with the Ministry of Education.
In the second charge, Rizal was charged with asking Saidi for RM 25,000,000 to ensure that Rosmah would help Jepak Holdings carry out the project.
The two offenses allegedly occurred at Lygon Cafe, G-24, Ground Floor, Sunway Putra Mall, 100, Jalan Putra, Chow Kit, here between March and April 2016.
On the third charge, Rizal was charged with receiving RM 5 million from Saidi on behalf of Rosmah as a reward for helping him get the same project for Jepak Holdings. The offense was allegedly committed in the lobby of REIT Management Sdn Bhd, Hall 168, Jalan Bukit Bintang in Kuala Lumpur, on December 20, 2016.
Rizal was also accused of having received RM500,000 for himself from Saidi, in order to ensure that Rosmah helped Jepak Holdings get the same project. He allegedly committed the offense at No. 1, Laman Damai Sari, Jalan 1/61, Bukit Segambut in Kuala Lumpur on December 23, 2016.
The charges were laid under Section 16 (a) (A) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2009.
The offense is punishable under Article 24 of the same Law, which provides for a prison sentence of up to 20 years and a fine of at least five times the amount or value of the bribe or RM10,000, whichever is greater.
– Bernama
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