00:00A businessman claimed at the Sessions Court that he became a middleman between fellow businessman Zahrol Ahmad Zulkifli and former
00:08Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, as the former had faced obstacles in giving cash to the latter.
00:15Ji Nyanya Raja claimed that Zahrol had direct involvement with Lim in the Undersea Tunnel Project and oversaw two cash
00:22handovers in 2017.
00:25Lawyer Ramkarpal Singh, however, argued that Nyanya Raja was not needed as a middleman and suggested no cash was ever
00:32passed to Lim, but Nyanya Raja disagreed and said he could not speak for Zahrol.
00:38Nyanya Raja also told the court that in 2017 he sought help from several Barisan Nasional friends to obtain information
00:46on a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission probe involving Zahrol.
00:51However, Ramkarpal contended that Nyanya Raja was aware of the probe and had demanded money from Zahrol and that the
00:58so-called friends did not exist.
01:01Lim is accused of using his position as then Penang Chief Minister to solicit a 10% share of profits
01:08from the Undersea Tunnel Project and receiving RM3.3 million in bribes from Zahrol.
01:13He also faces two charges of dishonestly misappropriating RM208.7 million worth of state land.
01:22Han Yujo, FMT
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