Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor appears at the Kuala Lumpur High Court today. - BernamaThe High Court hearing Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor’s corruption trial here was told today that Jepak Holdings managing director Saidi Abang Samsudin had handed over RM5 million in cash to the former prime minister’s wife for her help in obtaining a Letter of Acceptance from the Ministry of Education for a solar hybrid project in Sarawak.
“Saidi handed over a paper bag that I believe contained cash to Datuk Rizal Mansor at his house, and after we left Datuk Rizal Mansor’s house, Saidi told me that he had given RM500,000 in cash to Datuk Rizal Mansor as a reward for helping Jepak get the solar hybrid project from the MOE,“ he said during the examination-in-chief by DPP Mohamad Mustaffa P. Kunyalam.
The acts were allegedly committed at Lygon Cafe, Sunway Putra Mall, Jalan Putra here; Rosmah’s residence at Jalan Langgak Duta, Taman Duta and at Seri Perdana, Persiaran Seri Perdana, Precinct 10, Putrajaya between January 2016 and Sept 2017. “Around August 2017, I had communicated with Datuk Rizal via WhatsApp to ask him to arrange a meeting between Saidi and Datin Seri Rosmah, and through a conversation dated August 4, 2017, I also informed Datuk Rizal that Saidi had agreed to pay 15% from the first payment for the solar hybrid project and genset maintenance totalling RM63 million,” he said.
The witness said that on Aug 10, 2017, Rizal had informed him about a meeting arranged at Rosmah’s residence in Taman Duta, only involving Saidi and Rosmah the next day, however, he was not sure if the meeting had indeed taken place.
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