KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4A key prosecution witness in Lim Guan Eng's corruption trial admitted in the Session Court today to fabricating press remarks he had made on being conned by individuals linked to the Barisan Nasional administration over a graft probe against his company implicated in the Penang undersea tunnel project.
Zarul Ahmad said this under cross-examination by defence lawyer Gobind Singh Deo after the latter produced an article by news portalIn the July 2018 press remark, Zarul Ahmad was quoted as saying,"It is like putting a gun to our head. We were conned into it in that sense", further stating the change in government was a"breath of fresh air” and an unshackling over what he claimed were politically motivated attacks against him and the company.
The witness previously told the court he was instructed by Lim to issue media statements for the purpose of discrediting a RM22 million graft allegation levelled against the company back in July 2018.