Former finance minister Lim Guan Eng tells the Penang High Court that he was not singling out Baling MP Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim in graft allegations he uttered in 2018. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, October 12, 2020.
FORMER Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng told the Penang High Court today that he does not agree with the allegation made by Baling member of Parliament Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim who claimed the statement he made in a press conference on February 28, 2018 only referred to him . “No, I don’t agree with this. I wish to state that most of the statements referred to other parties, namely the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission , Umno and MCA and only a few statements referred to the plaintiff ,” he said in his witness statement read out before judge Rosilah Yop.
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