Kota Kinabalu: KDM president Datuk Peter Anthony (pic) has reached the qualifying period to apply for parole, a reliable source confirmed.
Daily Express had earlier learnt that Peter, a former State Infrastructure Development Minister jailed for three years and fined RM50,000 in March 2025 for falsifying documents, had been released on parole from Kajang Prison.
He is understood to have returned to Sabah on March 13, and at the time of his sentencing was the Melalap Assemblyman, with no by-election held as the state assembly was nearing the end of its term.
His conviction arose from a 2015 charge of forging a letter of support to help his company secure a maintenance and service contract at Universiti Malaysia Sabah in 2014, despite the contract having been awarded to another company through an open tender.
He was found guilty by the Sessions Court in May 2022, with subsequent appeals to the High Court in April 2023 and the Court of Appeal in March 2025 dismissed.