PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has set July 29 to hear the prosecution’s appeal against the acquittal of Bung Moktar Radin and his wife, Zizie Izette Abdul Samad, of accepting RM2.8 million in bribes for Felcra investments.
Court of Appeal deputy registrar Noor Firdaus Rosli fixed the date during case management today. He also fixed the final case management date for July 15.
Lawyer K Sagana appeared for the couple, while deputy public prosecutor Fadhly Zamry acted for the prosecution.
Bung, the Kinabatangan MP, and his wife were acquitted on Sept 7 last year after the High Court overturned the Sept 2, 2022, sessions court ruling ordering them to enter their defence on the corruption charges.
The prosecution filed its appeal on Sept 18.
Bung, who was then the non-executive chairman of Felcra, was charged on May 3, 2019 with two counts of receiving bribes of RM2.2 million and RM262,500 as an inducement to obtain Felcra’s approval to invest RM150 million in Public Mutual unit trusts.
He was alleged to have accepted the bribes from Public Mutual’s investment agent Madhi Abdul Hamid through Zizie at the Taman Melawati Public Bank branch between 12.30pm and 5pm on June 12, 2015.
He was also charged with receiving a bribe of RM337,500 from another Public Mutual investment agent, Norhaili Mokhtar, under Zizie’s name at the same location on June 19, 2015.
Zizie was charged with three counts of abetting her husband at the same place, date and time.
