KUALA LUMPUR: A key witness in the corruption trial involving Lim Guan Eng on the Penang undersea tunnel project told the Sessions Court that he would “do anything” to protect the former Penang chief minister, including bribing the prime minister at that time to stop a graft probe into the project.
During a cross-examination by Lim’s counsel Gobind Singh Deo yesterday, Consortium Zenith Construction Sdn Bhd (CZC) senior executive director Datuk Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli said he gave RM22mil to then prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak through a middleman to stop the Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) from investigating the undersea tunnel project.