Guan Eng accepted cash-filled envelopes 'with a smile', says witness


KUALA LUMPUR: There were two occasions when envelopes, each containing RM100,000 in cash, were handed to Lim Guan Eng, which he accepted "with a smile", the Sessions Court here heard on Thursday (June 23).

Consortium Zenith Construction Sdn Bhd (ZCSB) senior executive director Datuk Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli told the court that the former Penang chief minister smiled when he was handed RM100,000 cash in an envelope in 2013 as a bribe for the Penang undersea tunnel project.

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