Kota Kinabalu: The Corruption Special Court fixed July 24 for further mention of a case involving a 44-year-old government servant charged with 16 counts of receiving bribes amounting to RM45,000, seven years ago.
Sessions Court Judge Jason Juga set the date for Zulfikar Khomeini Asli whose case was brought up for mention on Monday.
The defence informed the court that they were in the midst of preparing the representation letter and requested for further mention date.
On the first to 16 counts, Zulfikar who was at that time the Head of the Sales Tax Enforcement Unit at the Internal Audit Section of Sabah State Finance Ministry, received bribes of RM4,900, RM4,700, RM6,500, RM3,200, RM700, RM2,550, RM2,450, RM2,750, RM900, RM1,350, RM3,000, RM2,250, RM2,500, RM2,250,
RM2,500 and RM2,500 from a manager of an oil palm company.
The charges stated that all the money was banked into Zulfikar’s bank account in which he had interest and that he allegedly failed to report bribery offences to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
The offence under Section 25(1) of the MACC Act 2009 and punishable under Section 25(2) of the same Act carries a fine of up to RM100,000 or a jail term of up to 10 years, or both, on conviction.
The court extended the bail of Zulfikar, who is currently working at the Rural Development Ministry.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Nurul Izzati Sapifee from MACC appeared for the prosecution while Zulfikar was represented by counsel Syed Anwar Shariff Abdullah.
