SHAH ALAM (Jan 21): A former senior principal assistant secretary of a ministry pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court here today to two counts of accepting bribes totalling RM100,000 in connection with the issuance of tender for biofertiliser supply and delivery to a company last year.
Shahrulzaman Jaafar, 43, who was then attached at the Agriculture and Agro-based Ministry (MOA), made the plea after the charges were read out to him before Judge Rihaida Rafie.
According to the first charge, Shahrulzaman, who is currently suspended from his duty, is accused of accepting bribes amounting to RM70,000 from Hazrul Hisyam Hassan, 46.
It was an inducement for helping Hazrul Hisyam secure a tender to supply and deliver biofertiliser under the Production Incentive Scheme to KIIK Resources Sdn Bhd totalling RM37,478,572.55 by the roadside near Serdang Hospital between 11am and noon on May 12, 2020.
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SHAH ALAM: A former senior civil servant has claimed trial at the Sessions Court here to two counts of graft.
Shahrulzaman Jaafar, 43, a former senior principal assistant secretary with the Agriculture and Agro-based Ministry, is accused of accepting bribes amounting to RM100,000.
He allegedly accepted the bribes on two occasions last year as an inducement related to the issuance of tender to a company for the supply and delivery of biofertiliser.
Under the first charge, Shahrulzaman is accused of accepting RM70,000 from one Hazrul Hisyam Hassan.
The money was allegedly a bribe to aid Hazrul Hisyam in securing a tender to supply and deliver biofertiliser valued at RM37,478,572 under the Production Incentive Scheme to KIIK Resources Sdn Bhd.
TWO former top executives of Silver Bird Group Bhd may have been acquitted by the Court of Appeal (COA) last June on 134 counts of cheating and using forged documents to cheat Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) of almost RM67.4 million, but they are not totally off the hook yet.
Even though this was the prosecution’s final appeal, Datuk Jackson Tan Han Kook and Derec Ching Siew Cheong will still have to stand trial on charges levelled against them by the Securities Commission Malaysia for furnishing false information to Bursa Malaysia between 2010 and 2011, after the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court earlier this month declined to strike out the ongoing charges against them.
Compiled by RASHVINJEET S. BEDI and C. ARUNO
A Nigerian man by the name of “Innocent” has pleaded guilty to cheating the manager of a property company who lost up to RM339,610, Utusan Malaysia reported.
Innocent Uchechukwu Christian (pic), 27, confessed to cheating the 52-year-old woman into investing in a marine product supply project and transferring money into 11 different accounts.
However, Innocent’s fiancée M. Suvitha, 38, who is seven months pregnant, pleaded not guilty to the same charge.
The Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court did not grant bail to Innocent who does not have a passport while Suvitha was given bail of RM5,000.
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