PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has acquitted and discharged former Rural and Regional Development Ministry secretary-general Datuk Mohd Arif Ab Rahman of abetting his son in a S$200,000 bribery case related to a rural electricity supply project in Sandakan nine years ago.
In a unanimous decision yesterday, a three-member panel led by Federal Court judge Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera, alongside Court of Appeal judges Lim Chong Fong and Azizul Azmi Adnan, allowed Mohd Arif’s appeal to quash his three-year jail term and RM3mil fine.
