Sayed Amir Muzzakkir Al Sayed Mohamad, a former aide to then home minister Hamzah Zainudin, was charged on May 23, 2024 with receiving RM350,000 in bribes as an inducement for helping a company secure the RMPNet tender for the police force. (Bernama pic)

KUALA LUMPUR: The defence of the political secretary to a former home minister today argued that the Yayasan Tanah Aku office at Publika, where a prosecution witness claimed to have handed RM350,000 in cash to the accused in December 2020, was not in operation at the time.

Counsel Yaacob Sam, representing Sayed Amir Muzzakkir Al Sayed Mohamad, questioned Nexuscorpgroup Sdn Bhd (NXG) managing director Wan Azhar Yusof on his witness statement.

Wan Azhar had testified that he handed RM100,000 and RM250,000 to Sayed on Dec 4 and Dec 16, 2020, respectively, at the latter’s office at Yayasan Tanah Aku.