KUALA LUMPUR – The high court has granted a discharge not amounting to acquittal to former Federal Territories minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor on a charge of the RM1 million corruption in 2013.
Judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali granted the order after deputy public prosecutor Julia Ibrahim told the court that the prosecution decided to not proceed with the case against Tengku Adnan.
“There are new developments to the case that need to be investigated further. The prosecution does not want to waste the court’s time because we do not know how long it will take to investigate the new developments.
“The prosecution is unable to elaborate further. We can only inform the court that there has been a complaint filed with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) regarding a witness in this case,” said Julia.
Putrajaya MP Tengku Adnan’s trial was supposed to resume today.
He is charged with corruptly receiving RM1 million from businessman Datuk Tan Eng Boon, who had pleaded guilty to an alternative charge of abetting the politician and was fined RM1.5 million.
The money was deposited into Tengku Adnan’s CIMB Bank account as an inducement to assist an application by Nucleus Properties Sdn Bhd to increase the company’s plot ratio in regard to a development project on Lot 228, Jalan Semarak, Kuala Lumpur.
Tengku Adnan also faces an alternative charge, in his capacity as then Federal Territories minister, of receiving for himself RM1 million from Tan via a Public Bank cheque belonging to Pekan Nenas Industries Sdn Bhd, which was deposited into his CIMB account, knowing that Tan, as a director of Nucleus Properties, had connections with his official duties.
The trial before Nazlan began on September 20 last year, with the prosecution calling two witnesses to testify.
Tengku Adnan was also charged with having received for himself RM2 million from Aset Kayamas Sdn Bhd director Tan Sri Chai Kin Kong. With the trial before high court judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan completed, the court fixed December 21 for its decision. – The Vibes, December 7, 2020
