KUALA LUMPUR, March 27 — Former high-ranking officials from the Prime Minister’s Department and the Finance Ministry are among the 47 prosecution witnesses scheduled to testify in the corruption and money laundering trial of Bersatu Segambut Branch deputy chief Adam Radlan Adam Muhammad.
This trial pertains to the Jana Wibawa project, which will be conducted at the Sessions Court.
Deputy public prosecutor Farah Yasmin Salleh told the press about this matter after the case mention before Judge Suzana Hussin today, adding that the full names and positions of the witnesses would only be disclosed during the trial.
During today’s proceedings, she informed the court that the prosecution had submitted their list of 47 witnesses to the defence and requested that they should not be tampered with throughout the trial.
Farah further indicated that in compliance with Section 402B of the Criminal Procedure Code, the prosecution team would furnish the witness statements to the defence within 14 days from the witnesses’ court testimony date.
“The documents related to this case have been handed over to the defence pursuant to Section 51A of the Criminal Procedure Code,” she said, which was confirmed by Adam’s lawyer Alaistair Brandah Norman.
The court subsequently ordered that all statements of the prosecution witnesses be furnished to the defence within 14 days prior to their testimony, and scheduled May 9 for the next case mention.
The previously scheduled dates for the 15-day trial beginning in May this year have been maintained: May 27 to May 29, June 10 to June 12, July 9 to July 11, July 22 to July 24, and August 5 to August 7.
On February 21 last year, Adam was charged with one count of soliciting a cash bribe of between 3.5 to seven per cent of an RM47.8 million road construction project from MIE Infrastructure & Energy Sdn Bhd managing director Mat Jusoh Mamat.
He was also charged with another count of accepting a RM500,000 bribe from the same individual as an inducement to help the company secure the same project, which spanned from Jalan Sungai Adam to Kampung Banat in Perlis, from the government through direct negotiations.
The offences were allegedly committed at a restaurant in Dutamas and CIMB Bank Bukit Tunku Branch, Taman Tunku, on March 2021 and November 26, 2021.
On February 22 this year, Adam was once again charged with two counts of receiving RM4.1 million in bribes from Lian Tan Chuan and Mat Jusoh for helping Nepturis Sdn Bhd and MIE obtain two similar Jana Wibawa projects.
Then, on February 28, he was charged with soliciting RM2 million from Lian as an inducement to help Nepturis secure another project related to Jana Wibawa.
All the charges were framed under Section 16(a)(A) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act 2009 and punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a fine of not less than five times the amount of the bribe or RM10,000, whichever is higher, upon conviction.
Adam also faces seven money laundering charges amounting to over RM3 million under Section 4(1)(b) of the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorist Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001.
— Bernama
