Abu Sahid, Yap claim trial to 19 charges involving over RM700mil linked to MEX II project

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Business tycoon Tan Sri Abu Sahid Mohamed and former construction company director Datuk Yap Wee Leong pleaded not guilty to a total of 19 charges involving RM754.6mil at the Sessions Court in Shah Alam on Wednesday (Sept 24).  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/47z6swnv  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Business tycoon Tanshri Abu Sahid Mohammed and former construction company director Datuk Yapwi

00:10Leong pleaded not guilty to a total of 19 charges involving 754.6 million ringgit at the Shah Alam

00:19Sessions Court on Wednesday. The charges include criminal breach of trust, CBT, false claims and

00:25money laundering, all allegedly linked to the proposed Max 2 highway construction project.

00:31Both men entered their pleas before Judge Datuk Mohammed Nasir Nordin after the charges were read

00:37out separately in court. 74-year-old Abu Sahid faced a single charge of CBT for allegedly misappropriating

00:45145.5 million ringgit entrusted to him in his capacity as director of Maju Holdings.

00:52The funds were reportedly transferred to a construction company between January 12 and

00:58June 13, 2018. He faces a maximum jail term of 20 years, whipping and a fine upon conviction.

01:10Meanwhile, 68-year-old Yap claimed trial to 18 charges, nine involving false claims and nine

01:18for money laundering. For the false claims, he is accused of submitting nine fraudulent progress

01:23claims amounting to 220.7 million ringgit at a bank branch in Petaling between November 9, 2017

01:32and June 26, 2018. The claims allegedly involved pre-construction works that were never carried

01:39out. For these offenses, he faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine, if convicted.

01:46Yap is also accused of laundering 388.3 million ringgit across nine transactions between June

01:5421, 2017 and August 3, 2018 at a bank branch in Country Heights. He faces a maximum 15-year

02:03prison sentence and fines of not less than five times the amount laundered, or 5 million ringgit,

02:09whichever is higher, upon conviction. MACC DPP Datuk Ahmad Akram Garib requested that the current

02:17charges be transferred to the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court to be jointly tried with a related case

02:22scheduled for mention on November 3. The prosecution also pressed for bail to be maintained as per the

02:29KL Court's earlier decision, which is 1.5 million ringgit for Abu Sahid and 1 million ringgit for Yap,

02:36with their passports to be surrendered to the court. Defense counsels Datuk Hisham Teh Potek

02:42and Abdul Hakim Aiman did not object. The court approved all of the prosecution's requests.

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