Ex-director unaware of payments


KUALA LUMPUR: A former Penang Lands and Mines Department director says he was not aware of several alleged transactions made by a developer to swap two plots of state land linked to the Penang undersea tunnel project.

Datuk Akmar Omar, the 35th prosecution witness in the graft trial involving former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng, told the Sessions Court that he had no knowledge of several payments amounting to RM74.8mil made between Nov 18, 2013, and March 30, 2015, by Ewein Zenith Bhd to Consortium Zenith BUCG Sdn Bhd (CZBUCG).

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