KUALA LUMPUR, July 20 — A former company vice-president who was tasked with withdrawing money from the firm’s accounts told the Sessions Court today that he did not know if this was used to bribe former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng.
Zarul Ahmad previously testified that he gave Lim a total of RM3.3 million on several occasions from 2013 to 2017. Azli had at that time told the court that Zarul Ahmad had in 2018 allegedly confessed to him and his superior Ibrahim Sahari that the payments from 2012 to 2017 under the falsified payment documents were allegedly for bribes paid to Lim. He had said the alleged confession was made after the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s arrest of Zarul Ahmad.
Among other things, Malaysiakini and FMT reported that Azli had today told the court that Zarul Ahmad had made the alleged confession to him that the payments were for Lim while they were at the MACC headquarters for investigations., Azli said an MACC officer took him to another part of the building to record his statement after he happened to meet Zarul Ahmad there.