KUALA LUMPUR: 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 Segambut Bersatu deputy division chief Adam Radlan Adam Muhammad.
The trial is related to the Jana Wibawa project which will be held at the Sessions Court here.
This was told to reporters by deputy public prosecutor Farah Yasmin Salleh after the case mention before Judge Suzana Hussin, adding that the full names and positions of the witnesses would only be disclosed during the trial, reported Bernama.
During yesterday’s proceedings, Farah Yasmin told 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.
She 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 Radlan’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 29, June 10 to 12, July 9 to 11, July 22 to 24, and Aug 5 to 7.
On Feb 21 last year, Adam Radlan was charged with one count of soliciting a cash bribe of between 3.5% and 7% of a RM47.8mil road construction project from Mat Jusoh Mamat, the managing director of MIE Infrastructure & Energy Sdn Bhd.
He was also charged with another count of accepting a bribe of RM500,000 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 negotiation.
The offences were allegedly committed at a restaurant in Dutamas and CIMB Bank Bukit Tunku Branch, Taman Tunku in March 2021 and on Nov 26, 2021.
On Feb 22 this year, Adam Radlan was once again charged with two counts of receiving RM4.1mil in bribes from Lian Tan Chuan and Mat Jusoh for helping Nepturis Sdn Bhd and MIE obtain two similar Jana Wibawa projects.
Then on Feb 28, he was charged with soliciting RM2mil 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 Radlan also faces seven money laundering charges amounting to more than RM3mil under Section 4(1)(b) of the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorist Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001.
