00:00Former Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz will be the next prosecution witness to testify in former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's
00:08corruption trial, the Kuala Lumpur High Court heard today.
00:11Deputy Public Prosecutor Wan Shaharuddin Wan Laden informed Justice Nur Rewena Nordin that Tengku Zafrul is scheduled to testify at
00:20the next hearing on July 6,
00:21with the prosecution set to furnish his witness statement to the defense by June 19.
00:26Tengku Zafrul was Finance Minister when Muhyiddin was Prime Minister from February 2020 to August 2021.
00:33Muhyiddin, 78, faces seven charges linked to his administration's Jana Wibawa program, a government initiative introduced during the COVID-19
00:42pandemic to assist Bumipucha contractors.
00:45He is charged with four counts of abusing his position to solicit RM225.3 million in bribes for Grisato from
00:53three companies and one individual.
00:55Bukhari Equity Sunyam Berhad, NetTourist Sunyam Berhad, Mumfor Sunyam Berhad, and businessman Azman Yusuf.
01:02He also faces three counts of money laundering involving RM200 million allegedly received from Bukhari Equity and deposited into Bursatu's
01:10accounts at Ambank and CIMB Bank.
01:12Atosh Abused, FMT.
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