KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court here rejected the application of a company director to be granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) on four charges of soliciting and accepting bribes of RM15mil to secure projects from an agency under the Home Affairs Ministry.
Judge Rozina Ayob made the ruling on Wednesday after finding that the charges could be improved and it did not prejudice Datuk Seri Sim Choo Thiam, 53, as the applicant.
The court also rejected the applicant's request for the public prosecutor, as the respondent, to furnish a fresh written statement of facts favourable to his defence. Sim, who filed the application on July 4, requested that he be granted a DNAA because the public prosecutor had breached their statutory duty under Sections 153 and 154 of the Criminal Procedure Code and the investigation into the case was incomplete.
Sim claimed that it was only after he was charged in court that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission proceeded to record a statement from former home minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin, whose name was mentioned in his charges.
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