Deputy public prosecutor Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin requested the court to record the prosecution\u2019s regret on the presence of the witnesses, who are from Penang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\u201cWhat is regrettable is that the accused chose to be admitted to IJN on Dec\u00a012 when knowing that (the trial\u00a0of) his case is\u00a0on Dec\u00a013.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI hope this will not happen again, I do not want to make it a big issue and request the accused to be more responsible,” <\/em>he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hearing of the case was fixed for yesterday, but was postponed to today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Judge Azura Alwi allowed for the trial to continue today and tomorrow without Lim’s presence by applying Section 264 of the Criminal Procedure Code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At today’s proceedings, three prosecution witnesses were called to testify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two of them are\u00a0 Datuk Ng Wee Kok and S. Vijayalakchimi, who are Lim’s former senior private secretaries, and former Penang State Executive Council secretary M. Maheswari, who are the\u00a017th to 19th prosecution witnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In their respective\u00a0testimony, all of them confirmed several minutes of the meeting on the undersea tunnel project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lim is charged with using his position as then Penang Chief Minister to obtain a bribe of RM3.3 million for helping a company owned by Zarul Ahmad to secure the construction project worth RM6,341,383,702.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The offense was allegedly committed between January 2011 and August 2017 at the Penang Chief Minister’s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the second amended charge, Lim is accused of soliciting bribes amounting to 10% of the profits from Zarul to be earned by the company as gratification for helping his (Zarul) company to secure the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The offense was allegedly committed near The Gardens Hotel, Lingkaran Syed Putra, Mid Valley City, here, between 12.30 am and 2 am in\u00a0March 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lim, who is also DAP secretary-general, also faces two charges causing two plots of land, worth RM208.8 million, belonging to the Penang government to be disposed of to two companies, which are linked to the state\u2019s undersea tunnel project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The offense was allegedly committed at the Penang Land and Mines Office,\u00a0Komtar, on Feb 17, 2015, and March 22, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The hearing continues tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NMT<\/a> as reported by Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14 \u2014 The Sessions Court here today proceeded with the corruption trial involving…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-14-at-20.47.31.png",589,317,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-14-at-20.47.31-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-14-at-20.47.31-300x161.png",300,161,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-14-at-20.47.31.png",589,317,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-14-at-20.47.31.png",589,317,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-14-at-20.47.31.png",589,317,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-14-at-20.47.31.png",589,317,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-14-at-20.47.31.png",589,317,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-14-at-20.47.31.png",589,317,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-14-at-20.47.31.png",589,317,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"Crime<\/a> Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12674,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673\/revisions\/12674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}