[UPDATED] Khairy denies receiving funds after being named in Zahid’s UKSB trial

KUALA LUMPUR – Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin has denied receiving any political funds after he was accused in court of indirectly getting contributions from Ultra Kirana Sdn Bhd (UKSB).

He added that he has not been called to testify in the ongoing UKSB case but would be willing to do so and cooperate if needed.

“I did not receive any money or political fund contributions personally,” he said after officiating the Health Ministry’s Hospital Directors Conference in Petaling Jaya today.

On June 13, former UKSB director Wan Quoris Shah Wan Abdul Ghani, 42, said contributions of between RM50,000 and RM200,000 were given by the firm to Khairy’s Rembau Umno division but not directly to the minister, who was its then deputy chief.

The testimony was given during a trial involving Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. He is facing 33 charges of receiving bribes amounting to SG$13.56 million (RM43.05 million) from UKSB for himself as home minister to extend the contract of the company as the operator of OSC services in China and the VLN system, as well as to maintain the contract agreement to supply the VLN integrated system to the same company by the Home Ministry.

For another seven counts, Zahid was charged with obtaining for himself SG$1,150,000, RM3 million, €15,000 (RM69,373) and US$15,000 (RM69,995) from the same company, which has official links with his official duty. 

He was charged with committing all the offences at Seri Satria, Precinct 16, Putrajaya, and Country Heights Kajang between October 2014 and March 2018.

Earlier, the 15th prosecution witness, former UKSB director Harry Lee Vui Khun, had told the court that “KJ” and “bomoh” were among words recorded in the UKSB ledger that was presented in Zahid’s corruption trial.

The UKSB ledger, also known as “Buku 555”, tendered at the trial contained records of payments made by UKSB to several individuals between 2014 and 2018. – The Vibes, June 21, 2022