KUALA LUMPUR – Former Felda chairman Tan Sri Isa Samad will be getting his passport back temporarily to attend his daughter’s convocation ceremony at a UK university by month’s end.
Isa will be getting his expired travel documents back by next Monday to apply for a renewal and to return them by April 16, reported Free Malaysia Today.
His lawyer Wan Azmir Wan Majid told the court that Isa will be travelling to the UK on March 26 and the convocation ceremony is on March 30.
On February 3 last year, Isa, 72, was convicted on nine counts of graft involving RM3 million related to the purchase of Merdeka Palace Hotel & Suites in Kuching, Sarawak and was sentenced to six-year jail for each charge and fined RM15.45 million, with an additional 18 year of’ jail should he fail to pay the fine.
Isa is only required to serve six years after Judge Datuk Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali, who is now an appeal court judge, ordered all jail sentences to run concurrently.
The judge reached his verdict after finding that the prosecution managed to prove their case for all the charges against Isa.
The former Negri Sembilan menteri besar filed his appeal on February 4, 2021. – The Vibes, March 11, 2022
