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Company awarded solar project despite Treasury reservations, witness tells court

Prosecution witness Othman Semail at the courts today, where he testified that he advised then prime minister Najib Razak that there was not enough allocation for the solar hybrid project. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Afif Abd Halim, February 20, 2020.

THE Education Ministry proceeded to issue Jepak Holding Sdn Bhd with a letter of award for a solar hybrid project for schools in Sarawak despite reservations from Treasury officials, the high court heard today. Prosecution witness Othman Semail, who was the Finance Ministry’s then government procurement department chief, said that he had advised then prime minister Najib Razak through several memoranda that the Education Ministry didn’t have enough allocations for the project.

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