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PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has fixed April 26 for another case management in the prosecution’s appeal against the acquittal of Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin and his wife Datin Seri Zizie Izette Abdul Samad from three corruption charges involving RM2.8mil relating to a Felcra Bhd investment.
DPP Law Chin How confirmed the date was fixed by the court’s deputy registrar Muhammad Noor Firdaus Rosli during a case management on Friday (March 22) as the appeal records were still not ready.
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The Kinabatangan MP and his wife were acquitted on Sept 7 after the High Court allowed their revision applications against the Sessions Court’s decision ordering them to enter their defence on the charges.
Following this, the prosecution filed its appeal on Sept 18.
On Sept 2, 2022 the Sessions Court ordered Bung Moktar and Zizie Izette to enter their defence on all three corruption charges.
They subsequently filed revision applications in the High Court against the Sessions Court’s ruling.
Bung Moktar, who was then the non-executive chairman of Felcra, was charged on May 3, 2019 with two charges of accepting bribes of RM2.2mil and RM262,500 as an inducement to obtain Felcra approval to invest RM150mil in Public Mutual unit trusts.
He was alleged to have accepted the bribes from Public Mutual Berhad investment agent Madhi Abdul Hamid through Zizie Izette at Public Bank Taman Melawati Branch here between 12.30pm and 5pm on June 12, 2015.
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Bung Moktar was also charged with receiving RM337,500 in cash from Unit Amanah consultant Norhaili Ahmad Mokhtar under the name of Zizie Izette for the same reason and place on June 19, 2015.
Zizie Izette was charged with three charges of abetting her husband in the matter at the same place, date and time. – Bernama
