Businessman with ties to Najib chosen as middleman to facilitate RM2m cash payments to Guan Eng in 2017, court told

KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 — A key prosecution witness told the Sessions Court today how he utilised an intermediary — namely businessman G. Gnanaraja — who was a close friend of Datuk Seri Najib Razak, in carrying out cash exchanges totalling RM2 million in bribes to former chief minister Lim Guan Eng.

After obtaining Lim’s consent, Zarul Ahmad said he then got in touch with Gnanaraja and relayed his wish to use the businessman as an intermediary to make payments to Lim. "If I had not given the money, I was worried Lim Guan Eng would disrupt my project in the future. If he never asked for 10 per cent of the future profits I would never have given him the RM2 million,” he added.

Zarul Ahmad then said he headed to Wenworth Hotel in Kuala Lumpur to introduce Gnanaraja to Lim, with the DAP leader later expressing excitement at being introduced to the businessman. Previously, prosecution witness and Gnanaraja’s wife, G. Geethanjali testified how she and her mother were woken from their sleep by her husband at around 2am, to welcome Lim and Zarul Ahmad.

He was accused of deceiving Zarul Ahmad into paying him RM19 million between July and August 2017 in exchange for using his connections to help settle an ongoing MACC probe into the company, which was the main contractor for the RM6.34 billion undersea tunnel project.

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