PKR today called for National Feedlot
Corporation (NFC) chairperson Mohamad Salleh Ismail to be arrested and
charged with attempting to bribe police and MACC investigators.
"PKR has ascertained through sources that the RM1.755 million Mohamad Salleh paid (to Shamsubahrin Ismail) was intended to bribe police and MACC investigators.
"Shamsubahrin was just the middleman, in collusion with Mohamad Salleh.
"Shamsubahrin took the money disguised as consultancy fee, and offered it to the enforcement officers," the opposition party's director of strategy Rafizi Ramli told a press conference in Petaling Jaya today.
The money was allegedly to influence the course of the investigation into NFC.
As per Section 4 (16) and 4(17) of the MACC Act 2009, Rafizi (right in photo) argued that Mohamad Salleh, can be found guilty of attempted bribery.
That specific section, he said, states that any person who offers money in person, via a middleman or with other persons, can be found guilty and charged with the offence.
Rafizi said the matter was conveyed to the party through sources close to the police.
He said there was evidence in a police report lodged by a Bukit Aman police officer who was approached by Shamsubahrin with the bribe offer, as well as a statement allegedly taken from the NFC chairperson who corroborated the matter.
However, Rafizi said, Shamsubahrin was being made the fall guy and was instead being charged with attempting to defraud Mohamad Salleh.
“It is like a public relations exercise, as if to accuse Shamsubahrin of trying to defraud Mohamad Salleh and then maybe pin the entire NFC misappropriations on him as the person who cheated the gullible chairperson and his entire family,” Rafizi said.
MACC prosecution chief Abdul Razak Musa told reporters after Shamsubahrin was, on Dec 30 last year charged with cheating the NFC boss, that it was initially believed that the RM1.755 million was used to “influence someone” - but investigations found this to be untrue.
"PKR has ascertained through sources that the RM1.755 million Mohamad Salleh paid (to Shamsubahrin Ismail) was intended to bribe police and MACC investigators.
"Shamsubahrin was just the middleman, in collusion with Mohamad Salleh.
"Shamsubahrin took the money disguised as consultancy fee, and offered it to the enforcement officers," the opposition party's director of strategy Rafizi Ramli told a press conference in Petaling Jaya today.
The money was allegedly to influence the course of the investigation into NFC.
As per Section 4 (16) and 4(17) of the MACC Act 2009, Rafizi (right in photo) argued that Mohamad Salleh, can be found guilty of attempted bribery.That specific section, he said, states that any person who offers money in person, via a middleman or with other persons, can be found guilty and charged with the offence.
Rafizi said the matter was conveyed to the party through sources close to the police.
He said there was evidence in a police report lodged by a Bukit Aman police officer who was approached by Shamsubahrin with the bribe offer, as well as a statement allegedly taken from the NFC chairperson who corroborated the matter.
However, Rafizi said, Shamsubahrin was being made the fall guy and was instead being charged with attempting to defraud Mohamad Salleh.
“It is like a public relations exercise, as if to accuse Shamsubahrin of trying to defraud Mohamad Salleh and then maybe pin the entire NFC misappropriations on him as the person who cheated the gullible chairperson and his entire family,” Rafizi said.
MACC prosecution chief Abdul Razak Musa told reporters after Shamsubahrin was, on Dec 30 last year charged with cheating the NFC boss, that it was initially believed that the RM1.755 million was used to “influence someone” - but investigations found this to be untrue.
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