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Kota Kinabalu: A prosecution’s witness told the Special Corruption Court here that a co-accused in a huge money laundering case, former Sabah Water Department Director Ag Mohd Tahir Mohd Talib, had two accounts under his name totalling about RM2.6 million at OCBC Bank.

Robert Yong Jade Kui, who was the Relief Head at the Operation Service Centre of the bank's Kota Kinabalu branch, said in his witness statement that the amount brought forward for an OCBC Bank premier account statement under Ag Mohd Tahir’s name for October 2016 amounted to RM1,920,283.22.

Yong, who was the prosecution’s 16th witness, also confirmed that the balance in the said account on the statement for October 2016 amounted to RM1,920,935.59.

He said these were based on his review of the system for that account on Nov 8, 2016.

Yong also stated that the balance in a monthly investment account in the name of Ag Mohd Tahir as of Oct 31, 2016  amounted to RM698,064.34 on Nov 8, 2016.

On trial were Ag Mohd Tahir, 58, his wife Fauziah Piut, 55, and former deputy director of the department Lim Lam Beng, 66, who had on Dec 29, 2016 pleaded not guilty to 37 counts of money laundering involving RM 61.57 million.