Kuala Lumpur: The prosecution’s key witness in the corruption case involving Lim Guan Eng told the Sessions Court here Friday that the former Penang Chief Minister’s name only cropped up in 2019 more than a year after the investigation into the case involving businessman G. Gnanaraja.
Consortium Zenith Construction Sdn Bhd director Datuk Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli, 65, told this to the court when lawyer RSN Rayer, representing Lim, referred to his statement that was recorded by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission in the case involving Gnanaraja in the Sessions Court Shah Alam in 2018.
The witness also agreed with Rayer that throughout the investigation, the MACC did not ask him to submit any documents about the declaration of property declaration and the Money Laundering Act.Zarul Ahmad also told the court that he felt stressed and tired because he was in MACC’s custody for 11 days for questioning regarding the Penang undersea tunnel case before being called by MACC to record his statement concerning Gnanaraja’s case.
On the first charge, Lim is alleged to have abused his power as then Penang Chief Minister to obtain RM3.3 million in monetary gratification as an inducement to appoint Zarul’s company to implement the RM6,341,383,702 undersea tunnel project and construction of main roads in the state.
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