Hamzah’s ex-aide charged with receiving RM350,000 bribe

The Star

A former political secretary to former home minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin has been charged at the Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur over two counts of graft involving RM350,000 linked to a maintenance and spare parts supply tender for the police force.  The accused, Sayed Amir Muzzakkir Al Sayed Mohamad, 42, pleaded not guilty after the charges were read out before Sessions Court judge Azura Alwi on Thursday (May 23).  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4kc852ub  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 A former political secretary to ex-Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin was charged in

00:07 the Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday with two counts of accepting R350,000 in gratification

00:14 to help a company in securing a tender for maintenance services and the supply of spare

00:18 parts for the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM).

00:22 The 42-year-old is accused of receiving the money from Wan Azhar Mohamad Yusof, managing

00:27 director of Nexus Corp Group Sendirian Berhad, as gratification to help the company obtain

00:32 a tender for maintenance services and the supply of spare parts for infrastructure equipment,

00:37 servers, RMPNet system user software and radios for PDRM valued at over R381 million.

00:47 The alleged offences occurred at the office of Yayasan Tana Aku Solaris Dutamas on December

00:53 4 and December 16, 2020.

00:56 The charges fall under Section 16A(a) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act

01:02 2009 and are punishable under Section 24(1) of the same Act, which provides imprisonment

01:08 for up to 20 years and a fine of not less than five times the amount or value of the

01:13 bribe or RM10,000 whichever is higher upon conviction.

01:16 Thank you.

01:18 [End of Audio]

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