KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Speaker Datuk Seri Kadzim Yahya will lodge a police report over a businessman's claims that he received RM350,000 in connection with alleged bribery involving mining prospecting licences.
Kadzim said that he was "trapped" by the businessman in a similar ploy used against other Sabah assemblymen in the alleged issuance of prospecting licences.
"I am planning to make a police report," he said when contacted Tuesday (March 11).
Kadzim said that he had no knowledge of the RM350,000 that the businessman claimed that he had given in the secretly recorded video between him (Kadzim) and the businessman.
"I don't know about the RM350,000. My response was regarding the RM50,000 I borrowed (from the businessman) but he said it was okay," he said when contacted Tuesday.
Kadzim said this in response to a news portal report on Monday (March 10) that the secretly recorded video uploaded along with a Whatsapp chat between him and a businessman about a RM50,000 loan.
He declined to further comment on the matter as it was a similar ploy using secret video conversations to allegedly entrap other unsuspecting assemblymen in Sabah.
The video on Kadzim is the latest to be released by the businessman who, through the news portal, has implicated eight Sabah assemblymen including three state ministers for allegedly receiving monies for prospecting licences.
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki said that the edited videos could not be used as evidence and had questioned 18 witnesses connected to the claims by the businessman.
In Petaling Jaya earlier Tuesday, Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) executive director Zaid Malek handed over full, unedited videos involving Sabah assemblymen to the MACC.
LFL founding member Latheefa Koya said Zaid will hand a USB drive and the original device used by a whistleblower to record the videos to MACC headquarters.
Latheefa, who was former MACC chief commissioner, said the unedited videos were given by the "whistleblower" who sought LFL's help.
