00:00A corruption case involving Datuk Seri Shamsul Iskandar Mohamad Akin at the Shah Alam Sessions Court
00:07will be tried together with four other corruption charges he faces at the Sessions Court in Kuala
00:12Lumpur, all linked to the approval of a mineral exploration license in Sabah. Judge Susanna
00:19Hussin made the ruling after allowing an application by Deputy Public Prosecutor Farah
00:24Ezlin Yousop Khan to transfer the Shah Alam case. Earlier, Farah Ezlin sought an extension
00:31of time for the prosecution to submit documents related to the case to both the court and the
00:36defence team, citing the need to determine which documents would be relied upon during the trial.
00:42Counsel Datuk Ameer Hamza Arshad, representing the former senior political secretary to the Prime
00:47Minister, said the defence did not object to the application but requested that documents already
00:53available be furnished to them first. Separately, Judge Rosli Ahmad allowed the prosecution's
00:59application for the case involving Albert Tay at the Shah Alam Sessions Court to be tried
01:04together with the four other corruption charges he faces at the KL Sessions Court.
01:10Tay was charged last month with five corruption offences for allegedly offering bribes totaling
01:16over 176,000 ringgit to Shamsul Iskandar for Sabah mineral license approvals. Shamsul in turn
01:24was charged with five counts of receiving the said bribes.
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