Surveyor denies taking bribes

KUALA TERENGGANU: A senior quantity surveyor at Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA) has pleaded not guilty in a Sessions Court here to nine counts of accepting cash bribes and a motorcycle amounting to RM30,000.

Malike Mohamed, 52, was charged with eight counts of receiving cash amounting to RM14,500 from the representative of AMZ Sepakat Sdn Bhd, Azman Yusof, in return for facilitating an interim payment claim process made by the company to UniSZA, at a bank here, between May 15, 2019 and July 6, 2020, Bernama reported.