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KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): On Tuesday (October 6) the Supreme Court was told that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had received complaints from various officers in the Investigation Division of the Prime Minister’s Department that they misappropriated funds worth million ringgit that belonged to the Malaysian government.
MACC Asst Supt Muhammad Nizhar Kadi said that the money was in various bags and was kept in various places.
Acting on the complaints, he said, the MACC carried out an operation, known as “Ops Dinar 2” to investigate the matter.
He said the commission raided several houses in Cyberjaya and Putrajaya and arrested some suspects, but no money or documents were found.
“At approximately 12:15 AM on August 30, 2018, my team and I received instructions to arrest a suspect named Datuk Salahudin Yaakob at KLIA2.
“At 1 a.m., we left for the Shaftsbury residence, Cyberjaya, for a search. A total of $ 4.07 million was seized from the residence,” said Muhammad Nizhar, the first prosecution witness, reading his testimony. statement during the chief examination by Deputy Prosecutor Muhammad Iskandar Ahmad on the first day of Datuk Hasanah Abdul Hamid’s (Photo) $ 2.1 million (RM50.4 million) criminal breach of trust lawsuit.
Hasanah was then the director general of the Malaysian External Intelligence Organization (MEIO).
Muhammad Nizhar said that around 11 a.m. the same day, the second seizure, involving 2,220,000 RM, took place in Terengganu.
He said the money was seized from the home of the parents of another suspect, known as Maliki.
“Maliki counted the money himself while I was witnessing it,” he added.
Meanwhile, the third prosecution witness, diplomatic and administrative officer for the Public Service Commission, Norhisham Md Nordin, 40, said Hasanah failed to provide her duty notes and file when her contract as CEO of the Research Division.
“Hasanah’s service contract for the position expired on June 30, 2018 and she did not provide both documents (delivery of notes and desk file).
“According to Service Circular No. 3 of 2004 and a letter from the Department of Public Services dated July 19, 1985, any government official who changes positions or retires must prepare the notes on the transfer of functions, as well as the administrative file, to the successor ”, he said when reading the statement of his witness during the interrogation in chief of the deputy prosecutor Muhamad Ashraf Md Kamal.
According to Norhisham, the delivery of service notes is also required in the process of transfer, promotion or termination of service of government officials.
Norhisham, who was a special officer in the Investigation Division, said the matter arose after his former employer, the division’s then general director, Datuk Ahmad Shublee Othman, instructed him to obtain the notes and file of Hasanah’s desk.
He told the court that Ahmad Shublee was appointed director general of the Investigation Division on July 8, 2018, to replace Hasanah, whose contract expired on June 30, 2018.
Between July 1 and July 7, 2018, the position of director general of the Investigation Division was not filled because no appointment was made by the office of the Chief Secretary of Government, he added.
On October 25, 2018, Hasanah, 62, pleaded not guilty to the charge of committing CBT for an amount of US $ 12.1 million (RM50.4 million) in government-owned funds while serving as CEO of the Research Division of the Prime Minister’s Department.
She was charged with committing the crime at the Investigation Division office in the Prime Minister’s Department in Putrajaya between April 30 and May 9, 2018.
The woman was charged under Section 409 of the Penal Code, which provides a maximum of 20 years in jail and flogging, as well as a fine if convicted.
The hearing before Judicial Commissioner Datuk Ahmad Shahrir Mohd Salleh continues on Thursday (October 8). – Bernama
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