Lim’s graft trial postponed to get WhatsApp messages


KUALA LUMPUR: The hearing of former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng’s Penang undersea tunnel corruption case has been adjourned to March 1 and 17 for the defence to obtain the note of proceedings from another court case about a RM2mil payment.

The official document contains WhatsApp messages between two key witnesses in Lim’s trial. Lim’s lawyer Gobind Singh Deo told the court yesterday that the defence was trying to obtain the notes of proceedings of the case in the Shah Alam Sessions Court involving businessman G. Gnanaraja.

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