Muhyiddin Yassin dibicarakan atas tujuh pertuduhan berkaitan program Jana Wibawa. (Gambar Bernama)KUALA LUMPUR: Mahkamah Tinggi hari ini diberitahu sebuah syarikat pembinaan menyumbang RM19.5 juta kepada Bersatu bagi mendapatkan projek jalan raya bernilai RM605 juta menerusi program Jana Wibawa.Pengarah Urusan Mamfor Sdn Bhd Shahradzi Shamsuddin, 43, ketika memberi keterangan dalam perbicaraan rasuah bekas perdana menteri Muhyiddin Yassin berkata beliau menyediakan semua cek jurubank dan menyerahkannya sendiri secara berperingkat kepada ibu pejabat Bersatu di Petaling Jaya antara Mei 2021 hingga November 2022.Saksi pendakwaan itu berkata pada Jun 2021, beliau meminta bantuan ahli perniagaan Azman Yusoff untuk membantu Sutracom Sdn Bhd, syarikat milik adiknya Shahrin Shamsuddin, mendapatkan projek pembinaan dan menaik taraf Lingkaran Pulau Indah Fasa 3 bernilai RM605 juta.Shahradzi berkata beliau mengenali Azman selepas bertemu dengannya di Kementerian Kerja Raya kira-kira setahun sebelum itu.Menurutnya, sebulan kemudian, Azman memintanya menyumbang wang kepada Bersatu dan berkata beliau akan membantu Sutracom memperoleh projek berkenaan.Walaupun Azman tidak menetapkan jumlah atau peratusan tertentu, Shahradzi berkata berdasarkan pengalamannya sebagai ahli perniagaan, beliau menganggarkan sumbangan itu sekitar 3% hingga 4% daripada nilai kontrak.“Saya memenuhi permintaannya kerana percaya ia mempunyai kaitan dengan Sutracom, syarikat milik adik saya yang saya gunakan untuk mendapatkan projek Lingkaran Pulau Indah, menerima minit sokongan bertulis daripada Muhyiddin Yassin yang ketika itu perdana menteri,” katanya dalam pernyataan saksi.Sutracom dianugerahkan projek itu pada Oktober 2022.Shahradzi berkata RM10.5 juta disumbangkan sebelum Sutracom menerima surat setuju terima, manakala RM9 juta lagi diberikan selepas projek itu dianugerahkan.Ketika pemeriksaan utama oleh Timbalan Pendakwa Raya Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin, Shahradzi bersetuju beliau tidak akan menyumbang kepada Bersatu sekiranya Azman tidak memintanya berbuat demikian.Wan Shaharuddin: Jika Azman tidak meminta sumbangan itu, adakah anda akan menyumbang walaupun RM100 kepada Bersatu?Shahradzi: Tidak.Ketika disoal Timbalan Pendakwa Raya Mahadi Jumaat, Shahradzi berkata beliau mengetahui Azman terbabit dalam perniagaan pengurusan fasiliti dan presiden sebuah persatuan kontraktor Bumiputera.Semasa pem… Former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin is standing trial on seven charges linked to the Jana Wibawa programme, a government initiative introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic to assist Bumiputera contractors.
(Bernama pic)KUALA LUMPUR: A construction company contributed RM19.5 million to Bersatu to secure a RM605 million road project under the government’s Jana Wibawa programme in 2022, the High Court heard today.Mamfor Sdn Bhd managing director Shahradzi Shamsuddin, 43, testified in former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s corruption trial that he prepared all the banker’s cheques and personally delivered them in stages to Bersatu’s headquarters in Petaling Jaya between May 2021 and November 2022.The prosecution witness said he sought help from businessman Azman Yusoff in June 2021 to help Sutracom Sdn Bhd, his younger brother Shahrin Shamsuddin’s company, secure the RM605 million Pulau Indah Ring Road Phase 3 construction and upgrading project.Shahradzi said he had known Azman since meeting him at the works ministry about a year earlier.He claimed that a month later, Azman asked him to contribute money to Bersatu and said he would help Sutracom secure the project.Although Azman did not specify an amount or percentage, Shahradzi said he estimated the contribution would be about 3-4% of the contract value based on his experience as a businessman.“I complied with his request because I believed it was related to the fact that Sutracom, a company owned by my younger brother which I used to secure the Pulau Indah Ring Road project, had received a written minute of support from then-prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin,” he said in his witness statement.Sutracom was awarded the project in October 2022.Shahradzi said RM10.5 million was contributed before Sutracom received the letter of acceptance, followed by a further RM9 million after the project was awarded.During examination-in-chief by deputy public prosecutor Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin, Shahradzi agreed that he would not have donated to Bersatu if Azman had not asked him to.Wan Shaharuddin: If Azman had not asked for the contribution, would you have donated even RM100 to Bersatu?Shahradzi: No.Questioned by deputy public prosecutor Mahadi Jumaat, Shahradzi said he knew Azman was involved in the facility management business and was president of a Bumiputera contractors’ association.During cross-examination, defence…
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