Court sets Aug 1 for graft case mention involving Hamzah's ex-aide

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The Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur has set August 1 for the next mention of the corruption case involving Sayed Amir Muzzakkir Al Sayed Mohamad, the former political secretary to then Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur has set August 1st for the next mention of the corruption case

00:06involving Syed Amir Muzakir Al-Sayed Muhammad, the former political secretary to then Home

00:12Minister Datuk Seri Hamza Zainuddin. The postponement was granted after Syed Amir's

00:18lawyer informed the court that the defense had yet to receive several key documents from the

00:23prosecution, delaying the submission of necessary court filings. Sessions Court Judge Rosli Ahmad

00:29allowed the request and fixed the new date accordingly. According to the charge,

00:34Syed Amir is accused of accepting a 350,000 ringgit bribe from one Azhar Muhammad Yusuf,

00:41the managing director of Nexus Corp group Sendirian Berhad, during his tenure as political secretary.

00:48The bribe was allegedly an inducement to assist Nexus Corp in securing a government tender

00:53worth over 381 million ringgit for the provision of maintenance services and the supply of spare

01:00parts, infrastructure equipment, servers, software and user radios for the Royal Malaysia Police's

01:07RMP-NET system. The alleged offenses occurred at the Yaya Santana Aku office in Solaris Dutamas

01:13on December 4th and 16th, 2020. Syed Amir was charged under Section 16 Subsection A Subsection A

01:22of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in

01:29prison and a fine of not less than five times the value of the bribe or 10,000 ringgit, whichever is

01:35higher, upon conviction.

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