KUALA LUMPUR – Trial will go on against a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officer and a businessman known as “Datuk Roy” after they failed to get the Attorney-General Chambers (AGC) to review their charges.
The duo was facing charges of soliciting and receiving bribes amounting to RM640,000 to ensure former prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s son was not remanded by the graft busters.
Deputy public prosecutor Farah Ezlin Yusop Khan told sessions court judge Suzana Hussin today that the AGC dismissed the representation filed by Mohd Rasyidi Mohd Said, 44, and Datuk Roy yesterday.
The judge then maintained the trial dates that had been set, which were August 8 and 9.
At the proceeding today, which was set for mention, Rasyidi and Datuk Roy, whose real name is Mohd Hussein Mohd Nasir, 55, were represented by lawyer Ariff Azami Hussein.
They were jointly charged with corruptly asking bribes amounting to RM400,000 from Siti Dalena Berhan, 47, as an inducement not to remand Datuk Fakhri Yassin Mahiaddin during MACC’s investigation.
Siti Dalena is the sister of Muhyiddin’s son-in-law Datuk Seri Muhammad Adlan Berhan, who is on Interpol’s red notice as MACC is still tracking him down.
The offence was allegedly committed at a restaurant in Bangsar, between 9pm and 11pm on March 5 last year.
The two accused were also charged with accepting bribes amounting to RM240,000 from Syed Farid Syed Al Attas, 41, who is Siti Dalena’s husband, as an inducement for MACC not to remand Fakhri during the investigation.
That offence was allegedly committed at a fast food outlet in Desa Sri Hartamas here between 2pm and 4pm on March 6 last year.
They were charged under Section 16 (a) (A) of the MACC Act 2009, punishable under Section 24 of the same act, which carries up to 20 years in jail and a fine of not less than five times the amount of the bribe or RM10,000, whichever is higher, upon conviction.
Datuk Roy was also charged with soliciting bribes of RM2 million from Siti Dalena and Syed Farid.
The bribe allegedly sought was an inducement to change the corruption charges against Adam Radlan Adam Muhammad to a lighter one, change his statement to one given as a witness and lower his bail amount.
The offence, under Section 16 (a) (A) of the MACC Act 2009, was allegedly committed at a premises in Kg Melayu Kepong, here in February last year. – July 5, 2024