00:00Former Tabung Haji Chief Operating Officer Adi Azwan Abdul Ghani has claimed trial to a charge of receiving about 9
00:07,000 ringgit in renovation costs for a house in 2017.
00:11Adi, 56, made the plea before Judge Susanna Hussain. The charge was framed under Section 165 of the Penal Code.
00:17The section makes it an offence for a public servant to obtain valuables without consideration and carries up to two
00:23years jail and a fine upon conviction.
00:26According to the charge, Adi allegedly received the renovation benefit for a house in Bandar Seri Damansara from AG Rekha
00:32Sendirian Berhad Director Samsul Azri Ismail.
00:36The offence was allegedly committed on March 7, 2017, while Adi was serving as Tabung Haji's Chief Operating Officer.
00:44Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Deputy Public Prosecutor Irna Juliza Maras successfully applied for the case to be transferred to the
00:51Shah Alam Sessions Court to be tried with Adi's three other charges.
00:55Susanna granted 50,000 ringgit bail with two sureties and ordered Adi to surrender his passport and report to the
01:02MACC office in Putrajaya once every three months.
01:06Defence lawyer Wan Azwan Aiman Wan Fakhruddin represented Adi.
01:10He faced three similar charges in Shah Alam yesterday involving renovation costs totaling around RM303,000 for three houses in
01:192017.
01:20Amradi Abgil, FMT.
