IPOH, Aug 3 — A former Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) officer was today fined RM100,000 after the Sessions Court here after he pleaded guilty to six counts of corruption involving more than RM1.5 million in connection with a supply deal to RMN between 2013 and 2015.
Before the proceedings started, Lieutenant Commander Khairul Izwan Mohd Khir, 38, who was the Material Control Officer 2 at the RMN Supply Depot in Lumut, had changed his plea to guilty to all the charges against him.
Judge S. Indra Nehru also ordered property worth about RM1.6 million belonging to Khairul Izwan to be forfeited.
Khairul Izwan was charged with four counts of receiving cash amounting to RM1.4 million between February 9 and February 27, 2015 from a contractor known as Hussin Roslin which was credited through four transactions in a third party account of Affin Bank Bhd at the bank’s branch in Sitiawan, Manjung.
He was also charged with accepting a CIMB debit card worth RM100,000 on January 7, 2014 from an owner of a company, Mohd Nasir Abdullah, at the CIMB Bank branch in Seri Manjung.
For the sixth charge, Khairul Izwan was charged with accepting a Bell & Ross watch from Hussin at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur in 2013 as a gift for helping to get a supply deal.
The accused was charged in the Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur on September 14, 2015 before the case was transferred to the Ipoh Sessions Court.
On September 9, 2015, Khairul Izwan pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here to the charges.
Deputy public prosecutors Amer Abu Bakar Abdullah and Mahadi Abdul Jumaat of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) conducted the prosecution while Khairul Izwan, who paid the fine, was represented by counsel Norhasham Hasan. — Bernama
