{"id":111989,"date":"2021-02-03T14:24:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T06:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=111989"},"modified":"2021-02-03T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T06:58:07","slug":"malaysia-high-court-delivers-verdict-on-isa-samads-rm-3-million-graft-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=111989","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia High Court Delivers Verdict On Isa Samad’s RM 3 million Graft Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 (NNN-BERNAMA) – Former Felda chairman, Mohd Isa Samad, was found guilty of nine counts of corruption, linked to the purchase of a hotel, in the State of Sarawak (East Malaysia).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kuala Lumpur High Court today ruled that the defence failed to raise reasonable doubt, in the prosecution\u2019s case against the accused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali, is expected to deliver the sentence later, following Isa\u2019s defence team mitigation for a lighter sentence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court fixed today for the decision, at the end of defence<\/a><\/strong> of Isa\u2019s corruption case, linked to the purchase of Merdeka Palace Hotel & Suites (MPHS) by Felda Investment Corporation Sdn Bhd (FICSB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 16 last year, the court ordered Isa to enter his defence to the nine corruption charges, following its finding that the prosecution succeeded<\/a><\/strong> in establishing a prima facie<\/em> case against the accused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sept 3 last year, the defence closed its case after having called six witnesses<\/a><\/strong> to testify for Isa, who was Negeri Sembilan menteri besar (chief minister) for 22 years from 1982 to 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accused was charged with nine counts of dishonestly receiving gratification for himself, in cash totalling RM3,090,000, from Ikhwan Zaidel, who is a board member of Gegasan Abadi Properties Sdn Bhd, through one Muhammad Zahid Md Arip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The monies were purportedly gratification for helping to approve the purchase of the hotel by FICSB for RM160 million.– NNN-BERNAMA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 (NNN-BERNAMA) – Former Felda chairman, Mohd Isa Samad, was found guilty of nine counts of corruption, linked to the purchase of a hotel, in the State of Sarawak (East Malaysia). The Kuala Lumpur High Court today ruled that the defence failed to raise reasonable doubt, in the prosecution\u2019s case against the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":112004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111989"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}