A former employee of Alcatel Network Systems (M) Sdn Bhd was ordered to enter her defence on a corruption charge involving RM25,000.
Sessions judge Rozilah Salleh said in her ruling yesterday that the prosecution had proven a prima facie case against Radziah Ani, 50, who allegedly offered the bribe to Telekom Malaysia Bhd assistant manager Mohd Asri Idris as an inducement to obtain information on a tender exercise more than six years ago.
The bribe was allegedly for Mohd Asri to provide tender information on the supply of Wideband Code Division Multiple Access Mobile Communications System and the Provision of Works Phase 2.
The bribe was given by way of an Alcatel cash cheque. Radziah was alleged to have committed the offence at the Shangri-la Hotel in Jalan Sultan Ismail on Feb 17, 2006.
Yesterday, Radziah’s defence lawyer Sarah Abishegam said that her client and 25 other witnesses would be testifying for the defence.
The court fixed September 19 for continuation of trial.
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission deputy public prosecutor Wan Ahmad Nidzam said that nine witnesses testified for the prosecution’s case.
Radziah faces a maximum 20 years jail and a fine of RM10,000, or not less than five times the amount involved in the offence, whichever is higher.
Radziah was charged under the Anti-Corruption Act 1997 in July last year following reports that Malaysian authorities had started to probe accusations by US officials that Paris-based Alcatel-Lucent had given kickbacks to government officials in Latin America and Asia, including Malaysia, between December 2001 and June 2006.
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