Lim and Phang walk free


GEORGE TOWN: After two years and having heard the testimony of 25 witnesses, the High Court here freed Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng and businesswoman Phang Li Koon of corruption charges involving the alleged conversion of a land status and purchase of a bungalow below market value.

Justice Hadhariah Syed Ismail ordered that both Lim and Phang be given a discharge amounting to an acquittal and released immediately.

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