Bung Moktar

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 2 — Kinabatangan MP Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin and his wife Datin Seri Zizie Izette Abdul Samad will enter their defence on three ...

Kumaraendran, Zizie Izette’s lawyer, told the court that only two witnesses, including the actress, will testify at the trial that is scheduled to run for 14 days. Athimulan, representing Bung Moktar, told the court that eight witnesses including his client will testify while Datuk K. He also pleaded not guilty to accepting an RM337,500 cash bribe from Norhaili under the name of Zizie Izette for similar reasons, at the same place on June 19, 2015, while Zizie Izette pleaded not guilty to three charges of abetting her husband in the matter at the same place, date and time. “After examining the testimony of the prosecution witnesses and the arguments of the prosecution and defence, I am satisfied and find that all the charges under Subsection 17(a) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act (MACC) 2009 against the first accused, Bung Moktar has been successfully proven by the prosecution to the prima facie stage,” the judge said. For Zizie Izette, the judge said the court was satisfied that all the charges under Subsection 28 (1) © of the MACC Act against her had been successfully proven by the prosecution at a prima facie level. Earlier, Sessions Court Judge Rozina Ayob ordered the couple to enter their defence after finding that the prosecution had made a prima facie case against the two accused at the end of the prosecution case.