PETALING JAYA: The former director-general of the Malaysian External Intelligence Organisation, Datuk Hasanah Abdul Hamid (pic), has passed away.
The ex-spy chief breathed her last at 1.22pm yesterday after a battle with liver cancer. She was 66.
Umno supreme council member Isham Jalil, in expressing his condolences, said he had known Hasanah for several years.
“We worked together at the Prime Minister’s Office.
“She was a friend and a dedicated civil servant who had served the country her entire career,” he said in a Facebook post yesterday.
Her son-in-law Khairil Qaiyum Aisha told a news portal that Hasanah was diagnosed with liver cancer last September.
She was buried at Pusara Taman Raudhatul Jannah KLM in Kajang at around 4.50pm yesterday.
Hasanah had in 2018 pleaded not guilty to criminal breach of trust involving US$12.1mil (RM50.4mil) belonging to the Malaysian government.
Last year, some US$6mil (RM25.1mil) in cash confiscated over her CBT case had gone missing.
Following the theft, Hasanah’s lawyer argued that without the exhibit, the case against her had collapsed.
She was given a full acquittal in August last year.
On the theft, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission senior superintendent Shahrum Nizam Baharuddin was sentenced to three years’ jail and two strokes of the rotan for misappropriation of the money.
