Former Sime Darby Engineering Sdn Bhd senior manager Mazhazmi Jamaludin has been granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) after the prosecution failed to locate the key witness in his corruption trial over the sale and construction of three vessels worth over RM400mil.
Sessions Judge Rozilah Salleh granted the DNAA application filed last Friday by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission deputy public prosecutor Anthony Kevin Morais.
On April 25, Morais applied for a DNAA order as key witness Redzuan Goh Mohammed Karian could not be located.
Mazhazmi, 37, was charged with accepting a RM200,000 payment as gratification in proposing MLC Shipbuilding Sdn Bhd to obtain a contract from Sime Darby to construct and sell a derrick lay barge and two anchor handling tug vessels worth a total of RM401.9mil.
He was also charged with accepting the money to confirm certain payments made by the shipbuilding company for the construction of the barge and tug vessels.
Mazhazmi, represented by lawyer Shamsul Sulaiman, was alleged to have received the money from Redzuan, the owner of MLC Shipbuilding.
He was charged under Section 11 (a) of the Anti-Corruption Act 1997.
Source : The Star
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