THE Director and Senior Executive of Procurement of Nepturis Sdn Bhd told the High Court that she prepared application letters to implement projects for five companies, in relation to projects under the Jana Wibawa Programme.
Aliza Abd. Malek, 46, said the company applied to the government to implement two construction projects, namely the Klang Utara District Police Headquarters and the Central Spine Road Sertik to East Coast Highway Intersection Project.
The 13th prosecution witness said this during the trial of four cases of abuse of position for bribery totalling RM225.3 million and three cases of money laundering (AMLA) totalling RM200 million faced by Bersatu President Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
Aliza, who is also the company's senior procurement executive, said she was instructed by businessman and owner of Nepturis, Lian Tian Chuan (known as TC Lian), to prepare a letter to apply for the project.
According to her, TC Lian informed that the letter would be given to Muhyiddin (then Prime Minister).
Aliza said she was also ordered to prepare application letters for four other companies for the same police station project.
She said the four companies were Permata Rebana Sdn. Bhd., Fastcoll Corporation Sdn. Bhd., JM Letrik Sdn. Bhd. and MZ Hakujaya Sdn. Bhd.
She said the letters were addressed to Muhyiddin, before the completed documents were handed over to another Nepturis director, Mohd Rizman Akum Khan, for signing.
“All the letters were addressed to the Prime Minister at that time with the title ‘North Klang District Police Headquarters Project, Selangor Applying to Implement the Project through Pre-Qualification Tender’, each dated between January 29 and February 1, 2021.
“After the letter was prepared, the document was handed over to TC Lian for further action,” she said.
However, this witness did not know to whom the letter was then handed over to be extended to the Prime Minister because the matter was handled by TC Lian.
Aliza said that she only found out about the project related to the Jana Wibawa program after receiving an email from the Malaysian Ministry of Finance on March 26, 2021, regarding the Jana Wibawa Assessor-Pre-Eligibility Assessment.
A few months later, she told Rizman that Nepturis had passed the pre-eligibility assessment.
According to the first to fourth amended charges, Muhyiddin, also the Pagoh MP, is charged with using his position as an officer of a public body, namely the Prime Minister of Malaysia and the President of Bersatu, to bribe RM225.3 million.
The money was allegedly from an individual, businessman Datuk Azman Yusoff, 51, and three companies, Bukhary Equity Sdn Bhd, Nepturis Sdn Bhd and Mamfor Sdn Bhd, on behalf of the party's affiliates.
For the fifth to seventh charges, Muhyiddin, as the party's president, is alleged to have received proceeds from illegal activities, namely money amounting to RM200 million, including from Bukhary Equity, which was deposited into Bersatu's CIMB Bank account.
The trial before Judge Noor Ruwena Md Nurdin continues tomorrow. – July 9, 2026
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