SHAH ALAM: Padang Serai Member of Parliament, Datuk Azman Nasrudin (pic), pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court, here, today, to a charge of abetting in a RM400,000 corruption case involving the Kedah state-owned cattle farming joint-venture project, five years ago.
Azman made the plea after the charge was read out before Judge Datuk Mohd Nasir Nordin.
According to the charge, the father of five is accused of abetting a businessman, Amar Assuat Abu Bakar, 41, in accepting a RM400,000 bribe from Mohd Hassanaim Fauzi, 39.
The payment was allegedly given as a reward for assisting Mohd Hassanaim in securing a joint-venture beef cattle farming project at the Ladang Fidlot Kedah Agro, Mukim Sungai Laka, Kubang Pasu, Kedah, from Kedah Agro Holding Berhad (KAHB).
Azman is accused of directing the KAHB chief executive officer to issue a letter of offer to Mohd Hassanaim for the project.
The offence was allegedly committed on June 23, 2020, at about 5 pm, on the roadside opposite the office of Angsa Emas Beaute Sdn Bhd, Section 9, Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor.