00:00Former Kinabatangan MP Datuk Sri Bung Mokhtar Radin has been acquitted by the Sessions Court
00:06in Kuala Lumpur of three corruption charges involving 2.8 million ringgit linked to a
00:12FELCRA investment following his death. Judge Rosli Ahmad granted the acquittal after the
00:19prosecution informed the court that it would not proceed with the case following Bung Mokhtar's
00:24passing on December 5 last year. However, proceedings against his widow, Zizi Izet A. Samad,
00:31who is charged with abetting her husband in relation to the same offenses, will continue
00:35with the defense hearing scheduled to begin in March. Deputy Public Prosecutor Law Chin Hao
00:42told the court that the Attorney General's chambers had rejected Zizi's representation
00:46to drop the charges. Her lawyer, Tae Cikun, then requested new trial dates for the defense
00:53hearing on March 5, 6 and 12, which were allowed by the court. Bung Mokhtar, who was the non-executive
01:01chairman of FELCRA Burhad at the time, was charged on May 3, 2019, with two counts of receiving
01:08bribes totaling 2.46 million ringgit as an inducement to secure FELCRA's approval to invest
01:14150 million ringgit in public mutual unit trusts. He was alleged to have received the bribes from
01:21public mutual Berhad investment agent Madhi Abdul Hamid through Zizi Izet at the public bank Taman
01:28Melawati branch in Kuala Lumpur between 12.30 p.m. and 5 p.m. on June 12, 2015. He was also charged
01:37with receiving 337,500 ringgit in cash from unit trust consultant Norhaili Ahmad Mokhtar under Zizi
01:46Izet's name, for the same purpose at the same location on June 19, 2015. Zizi was charged with
01:54three counts of abetting her husband in the offenses at the same place and dates. Zizi, who won Best
02:00Actress at the 2001 Anugara Skrin Awards for the drama Aduhai Isa, was absent from Friday's proceedings
02:07and was represented by her lawyer. Bung Mokhtar passed away at 1.46 a.m. on December 5 last year due to kidney
02:15failure and a lung infection.
02:25Bung Mokhtar passed away at 2.46 a.m. on June 12, 2015. Zizi is charged with
02:284.46 a.m. on June 13, 2015. Zizi is charged with 20.1 a.m. on June 13, 2015. He was
02:32???
02:35There was no strategy I'd like to make.
02:36For the case I can make.
02:37There was no strategy I'd like to make.
02:39It's okay.
02:40It was.
02:41My choice.
02:42If you're the right.
02:43I'm not my choice.
02:44I'm not my choice.
02:45What?
02:47I'm not my choice.
02:48And of course I'm wrong.
02:50I'm a choice.
02:51It's correct.
02:52It is correct.
02:53It's correct.
02:53It's correct.
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