Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid claimed that he was ‘threatened’ by two businessmen who were lobbying for the RM1.25 billion project from the Education Ministry. — Bernama pic
Mahdzir today related an incident in 2016 when both Saidi and Rayyan met him in a hotel in Kuala Lumpur to express their dissatisfaction over the decision by him and the Education Ministry to appoint Jepak Holdings to only carry out a pilot project introducing solar energy for 28 schools. Mahdzir was testifying today as the fifth prosecution witness against Najib’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor in her corruption trial for taking bribes totalling RM6.5 million in exchange for helping Jepak Holdings get the RM1.25 billion project.
Datuk Aazmey Abu Talib is secretary of Pekan Umno, the same party division where Najib is currently its chief. Mahdzir said the two even went to his office to find him after he ignored them but he told them he could not intervene in the matter that was then under the Finance Ministry. Mahdzir noted that Saidi and Rayyan went repeatedly to the Education Ministry office to ask officials there to speed up the project’s award to Jepak Holdings, with the duo also telling him that they had done the same at the Finance Ministry with such matters happening from September to October 2016.
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