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KUALA LUMPUR: Former PAS Vice President Datuk Dr. Nasharudin Mat Isa received an exoneration that does not amount to an acquittal of 16 counts of criminal breach of trust (CBT) related to the salary he received as president of Yayasan Nassar.
Deputy Prosecutor Mohd Zaki Mohd Salleh confirmed that a Shah Alam session court issued the discharge order which does not amount to an acquittal on September 22.
However, Dr. Nasharudin still faces 14 CBT charges involving RM3.65 thousand.
“The Judge of the Court of Sessions, Rozilah Salleh, issued the order after the court was informed that the representation of Dr. Nasharudin before the General Prosecutor’s Office (AGC) on July 7 was accepted,” he said when contacted here on Thursday (November 5).
DPP Zaki also said the court set November 20 to handle cases for the remaining 14 charges facing defendants.
On October 22 of last year, Nasharudin was charged with 30 counts of CBT under Section 409 of the Penal Code.
He faces a prison term of between two and 20 years, with flogging, and can be fined if convicted.
For counts one to 27, Nasharudin allegedly, in his capacity as chairman of Yayasan Nassar, committed CBT channeling RM1,131,647.80 of the foundation’s funds for his personal benefit and to pay various entities.
He had allegedly used the funds to pay himself a monthly salary of RM20,000 in 2015 and several months in 2016.
He had allegedly embezzled funds from a charity called Yayasan Nassar, which he had created in 2010 to pay for catering for the wedding of an anonymous son.
He had also allegedly used the funds to pay Knowledge Vision Sdn Bhd for the purchase of a commercial plot in Bandar Puteri Bangi; buy shares of Hajj Finance Company Limited; to pay his son Ammar’s college fees and to give his daughter Nusaibah a 34,000 ringgit loan.
Nasharudin allegedly committed the crimes at the Country Heights branch of CIMB Bank between January 8, 2015 and March 1, 2018.
For counts 28-30, he allegedly used his position as executive director of the Global Moderates Movement Foundation (GMMF) to misappropriate the organization’s funds in the amount of RM2.6 thousand to be channeled to his company Wasatiyah Center For Peace Sdn Bhd under the pretext of giving research grants.
He allegedly committed the crimes at the Menara Felda Platinum Park branch of Maybank between July 30 and August 8, 2018.
Nasharudin, 58, who was a Bachok MP from 2008 to 2013, was executive director of the now-defunct GMMF from 2015 to 2018.
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