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KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Former Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng (Photo) The corruption case involving the underwater tunnel project at Butterworth Sessions Court will be heard alongside your case in Sessions Court here.
The Butterworth Sessions Court had on August 10 allowed the prosecution’s request to transfer the case to Kuala Lumpur to be heard as a whole, since it involved the same transaction.
In Wednesday’s (9 September) proceedings before Session Court Judge Azura Alwi, Assistant Prosecutor Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin requested that the 60-year-old Lim be reread the charge.
Lim, who is also a Bagan MP, upheld his plea of not guilty. He is represented by attorney Gobind Singh Deo.
Azura then set October 12 to be mentioned.
Lim was accused, in his capacity as then Chief Minister of Penang, of having used his post to obtain a bonus of more than RM3.3 thousand to help a company owned by Datuk Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli to secure the RM6 underwater tunnel project. 3bil. .
Zarul Ahmad is a director of Consortium Zenith Construction Sdn Bhd.
Lim was charged with committing the crime at the Penang Chief Minister’s Office, Level 28, Komtar, Georgetown, Penang, between January 2011 and August 2017.
The charge falls under Section 23 (1) of the Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act 2009, which provides for a prison term of up to 20 years and a fine of not less than five times the the amount or value of the bonus, or RM10,000, whichever is greater, if convicted.
For the case here, Lim was tasked with applying for a bonus to help the company secure Penang’s roads and the underwater tunnel project.
It is alleged that he applied for 10 percent of the profits that Zarul Ahmad’s company would make, near The Gardens Hotel, Lingkaran Syed Putra, Mid Valley City here in March 2011. – Bernama
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