'Datuk Roy', MACC officer plead not guilty to soliciting, receiving RM640,000 bribe

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission officer bringing Mohd Hussein Mohd Nasir (Datuk Roy) for remand application in March 2023, at KL Magistrate's Court, Kuala Lumpur. - FAIHAN GHANI/The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: A businessman known as "Datuk Roy" and a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officer have been charged at the Sessions Court here for allegedly soliciting a RM400,000 bribe in an investigation involving the son of former prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

Datuk Roy, or his full name Mohd Hussein Mohd Nasir, 54, was jointly charged with Mohd Rasyidi Mohd Said, 43, with soliciting for themselves a RM400,000 bribe from one Siti Dalena Berhan as an inducement not to detain Datuk Fakhri Yassin Mahiaddin during MACC's investigation on Fakhri Yassin.