‘Sabah Watergate’ suspect to pay RM30mil compound


KOTA KINABALU: One of the four key suspects involved in the state’s biggest graft probe dubbed the Sabah Watergate scandal has been given a discharge not amounting to acquittal (DNAA) by the special corruption court here.

Teo Chee Kong (pic), the former Sabah Water Department deputy director, was ordered by the Special Corruptions Court here to pay a RM30mil compound following the DNAA yesterday.

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