Bung, wife freed of graft charges

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The High Court in Kuala Lumpur has acquitted and discharged Kinabatangan MP Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin and wife Datin Seri Zizie Izzette Abdul Samad following the granting of a revision application to drop all three graft charges against them.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/2p8a2wp6  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 The KL High Court has acquitted and discharged Kinabatangan MP Datuk Sri Bung Mokhtar Radin

00:08 and his ex-wife Datin Sri Zizi Ez Abdul Samad following the granting of a revision application

00:15 to drop all graft charges against them.

00:19 Justice Azhar Abdul Hamid acquitted and discharged the couple after hearing arguments from both

00:24 the prosecution and defence on Thursday.

00:28 In May 2019, Bung was charged with two counts of receiving bribes amounting to RM2.2 million

00:34 and RM262,500 as gratification to obtain Felcora's approval to make a RM150 million investment

00:43 in a public mutual unit trust.

00:46 Bung Mokhtar was the non-executive chairman in Felcora when the offences were allegedly

00:51 committed in 2015.

00:54 Zizi faced three charges of abetting her husband in the alleged offences.

00:59 They were ordered to answer the charges against them in September 2022.

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