Kota Kinabalu: The case of former State Infrastructure Development Minister Datuk Peter Anthony
(pic) who was charged with five counts of money laundering involving a sum of RM8.75 million and abetting a lawyer in committing criminal breach of trust, had been re-scheduled.
Sessions Court Judge Abu Bakar Manat made the order for Peter whose cases were supposed for ruling on the notice of application that was made by Peter in previous hearing.
The date of the ruling would be fixed later.
On the first to fifth counts, Peter, 49, is accused of receiving illegal proceeds from a company between July 25, 2014 and Jan 18, 2016.
The money was allegedly transferred from the company into another company’s bank account.
The offence came under the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2004 company bank account, the charges stated.
Meanwhile, he is also accused of abetting Persius Henry cg @ Michael Persius Ubu, 64, who was agent to Risda which entrusted him with a sum of RM15,545,400 that was paid through a cheque.
The cheque later was banked-in into an account that belonged to Michael’s law firm bank account and the money was for 10 per cent payment from the sale price of the 6,768,688 acres of oil palm plantation in Sungah Pinangah and Sungai Labau in Tongod.
The charge stated that Michael had dishonestly released the property in which he violated the contract with Risda as a result of abetting between Michael and Peter.
The alleged incident happened between July 22, 2014 and Nov. 19, 2015 at Michael’s law firm in Beverly Hills, Penampang.
