CIMB bank officer Khairolrony Kamarudin at the High Court in Kuala Lumpur today.
“The RM2 million was issued through a cheque from Hong Leong Islamic Bank, dated June 14, 2016,” he said in his witness statement tendered in court today. He said Tengku Adnan had been the signatory for Tadmansori’s cheques from July 1, 1998 to Jan 21, 2001, according to the company’s board of directors’ resolution.
Another witness, Muhammad Akmaludin Abdullah from the Companies Commission of Malaysia, told the court that Tengku Adnan is Tadmansori’s biggest shareholder.
In any other country, bribes were always in cash or in offshore accounts. Pre 9 May 2018, bribes were received in onshore bank accounts. Why? They followed their leader n thought they would never lose power.