Ahli perniagaan Lian Tian Chuan berkata Adam Radlan Adam Muhammad meminta beliau sediakan surat menyediakan surat hasrat yang ditujukan kepada Muhyiddin Yassin yang ketika itu perdana menteri. (Gambar Bernama)KUALA LUMPUR: Seorang ahli perniagaan memberitahu Mahkamah Tinggi bahawa beliau mendapatkan bantuan bekas timbalan ketua Bersatu Segambut, Adam Radlan Adam Muhammad, bagi mendapatkan kontrak di bawah Jana Wibawa.Pengarah Metrasys Sdn Bhd, Lian Tian Chuan, 54, yang juga saksi pendakwaan dalam kes rasuah bekas perdana menteri Muhyiddin Yassin, berkata seorang lagi ahli perniagaan, Azman Yusoff, memperkenalkannya kepada Adam pada 2020, dengan menyifatkan Adam sebagai rakan rapat serta teman bermain golf Muhyiddin.Lian berkata beliau beritahu Azman bahawa beliau berminat mendapatkan projek Jana Wibawa melalui sebuah lagi syarikat pembinaannya, Nepturis Sdn Bhd, yang diuruskan rakan kongsinya, Rizman Akum Khan dan Aliza Malek.Menurut Lian, Azman yang ketika itu presiden sebuah persatuan kontraktor Bumiputera memberitahunya bahawa syarikat yang berminat memperoleh projek Jana Wibawa memerlukan sokongan Muhyiddin, lalu mengatur pertemuan dengan Adam pada Disember 2020.“Adam memberitahu saya bahawa beliau mempunyai hubungan rapat dengan Muhyiddin dan boleh membantu saya mendapatkan projek,” kata Lian dalam penyataan saksinya.Lian berkata Adam kemudian memaklumkan mengenai projek Jana Wibawa bagi pembinaan IPD Klang Utara dan mengarahkannya menyediakan surat hasrat yang ditujukan kepada Muhyiddin bagi menyokong permohonan prakelayakan tender Nepturis.Beliau kemudian mengarahkan Aliza menyediakan lima surat, termasuk empat surat daripada syarikat yang 'dipinjam' bagi menyertai proses prakelayakan tender, sebelum menyerahkan semua dokumen itu kepada Adam untuk mendapatkan sokongan Muhyiddin.Aliza sebelum ini memberi keterangan bahawa lima syarikat berkenaan ialah Nepturis Sdn Bhd, Fastcoll Corporation Sdn Bhd, MZ Hakujaya Sdn Bhd, Permata Rebana Sdn Bhd dan JM Letrik Sdn Bhd.Lian berkata Azman kemudian memintanya menyumbang RM1 juta kepada Bersatu sekiranya Nepturis berjaya memperoleh projek pembinaan IPD Klang Utara, dengan mendakwa Adam telah mendapatkan sokongan Muhyiddin. Ketika itu, Muhyiddin yang juga presiden Bersatu merupakan perdana menteri.Katanya, Azman turut mencadangkan supaya syarikatnya, KCJ Engineering Sdn Bhd, dilantik sebagai perunding untuk men…
Businessman Lian Tian Chuan said former Segambut Bersatu deputy chief Adam Radlan Adam Muhammad instructed him to prepare a letter of interest addressed to then prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin. (Bernama pic)KUALA LUMPUR: A businessman told the High Court he sought help from former Segambut Bersatu deputy chief Adam Radlan Adam Muhammad to secure a contract under Jana Wibawa, a government initiative introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic to assist Bumiputera contractors.Metrasys Sdn Bhd director Lian Tian Chuan, 54, a prosecution witness in former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin's corruption trial, said another businessman, Azman Yusoff, introduced him to Adam in 2020, describing Adam as Muhyiddin's close friend and golf buddy.Lian said he told Azman, who was the president of a Bumiputera contractors' association, that he was interested in securing a Jana Wibawa project through one of his other construction companies, Nepturis Sdn Bhd, which his partners Rizman Akum Khan and Aliza Malek managed.According to Lian, Azman told him that companies interested in Jana Wibawa projects needed Muhyiddin's backing, prompting him to arrange a meeting with Adam in December 2020."Adam told me that he had close ties with Muhyiddin and could help me get a project," Lian said in his witness statement.Lian said Adam later informed him of a Jana Wibawa project to build the Klang Utara police headquarters and instructed him to prepare a letter of interest addressed to Muhyiddin to support Nepturis's pre-qualification tender application.He then instructed Aliza to prepare five letters, including four from companies he had "borrowed" to participate in the pre-qualification tender, before handing the documents to Adam to obtain Muhyiddin's approval.Aliza had previously testified that the five companies were Nepturis, Fastcoll Corporation Sdn Bhd, MZ Hakujaya Sdn Bhd, Permata Rebana Sdn Bhd and JM Letrik Sdn Bhd.Lian said Azman later told him to contribute RM1 million to Bersatu if Nepturis secured the police headquarters project, claiming Adam had sought Muhyiddin's support. Muhyiddin, the Bersatu president, was the prime minister at the time.He added that Azman also proposed appointing his company, KCJ Engineering Sdn Bhd, as a consultant to provide advisory services and conduct market research on suppliers for finance ministry and public works department pre-qualification tende…
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