KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 — Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) project management executive director was slapped today with 18 corruption charges including accepting bribes and assets estimated at RM4.4 million.
Datuk Seri Syed Afendy Syed Abid Ali, 54, was charged at the KL Special Court for Corruption.
He was charged with one count under Section 17(a) of the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission Act (ASPRM) 2009, eight more under Section 165 of the Penal Code and nine others under Section 4(1) of the Money Laundering and Anti Terrorism Financing Act (AMLAFTA) 2001.
He was charged with one count under Section 17(a) of the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) Act 2009, another eight under Section 165 of the Penal Code and nine others under Section 4(1) of the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing Act (AMLAFTA) 2001.
“Syed Afendy Ali is charged under Section 17(a) of the MACC Act 2009 with accepting a bribe for Rodziah Abd Samad, 54, in the form of a shophouse at Danau Lumayan Business Centre in Bandar Tun Razak worth 930,000, from Syarikat Danau Lumayan as a reward for approving progress payment claims from the company for a joint project with DBKL,” MACC said in a statement.
Section 24 of the same Act prescribes a punishment of a maximum jail term of 20 years and a fine of five times the amount of bribe accepted.
Rodziah Abd Samad is Syed Afendy's wife, The Star Online reported.
Syed Afendy Ali is also charged with accepting eight condominium units at Suasana Lumayan in Bandar Seri Permaisuri in Cheras under Section 165 of the Penal Code. Two of the units were under the name Minah Abdullah, another two more units under Syed Ashraf Ali and one unit each for Rodziah and Mazwan Amin Moh Noor.
According to the MACC, the condominium units were a bribe from Syarikat Danau Lumayan Sdn Bhd, with whom Syed Afendy Ali has an official working relationship.
If convicted under the Penal Code provision, Syed Afendy Ali can be jailed up to two years, fined or both.
The AMLAFTA 2001 charge states that the accused had used the proceeds of RM1.5 million from the sale of a house obtained free of charge, for his personal use as well as to purchase another house.
If convicted under this offence, the accused can be jailed for five years, fined RM5 million or both.
The MACC said all of the offences were committed between March 2009 and October 2014.
Judge Allaudeen Ismail fixed bail at RM1 million with one surety and ordered Syed Afendy to surrender his passport to the court.
The case has been fixed for mention next January 6.
With today’s charges, it is now evident that Syed Afendy was the 'Datuk Seri' who was nabbed by the MACC on August 15.
At that time, the commission only announced the arrest of three civil servants with a “Datuk Seri” and a “Datuk” title in Kuala Lumpur, Malacca and Kelantan for alleged corruption, abuse of power and money laundering.
