Former Rapid Penang COO gets jail, fined RM1.05m for bribery

KUANTAN: Former Rapid Penang chief operating officer (COO) was fined RM1.05 million and ordered to serve 14 days in jail by the Sessions Court here today after he pleaded guilty to three counts of accepting bribe totalling RM210,000 between 2014 and 2016.
Judge Dasuki Ali meted the sentence to Mohd Shukri Abdul Rahman, 55, after he pleaded guilty to all charges.
Mohd Shukri was charged with accepting the bribe from Jayonik MSC Sdn Bhd in three transactions as an inducement to assist the company to issue a letter of appointment for the 'Develop, Design, Manufacture, Supply, Delivery, Installations, Testing, Commissioning and Warranty of Bus Simulator System for Prasarana' project worth RM8 million.
In the first transaction, he accepted RM100,000 which was deposited into his friend's account at Hong Leong Bank branch in Beserah here on March 12, 2014, while in the second transaction, he accepted RM40,000 which was deposited into his wife's CIMB Bank account at the Pekan branch CIMB Bank on June 20, 2016.
The man also accepted RM70,000 from the same company, which was deposited into a Maybank account of one of his staff at the Penang Times Square Maybank branch in Georgetown, Penang, on April 20, 2015.
The prosecution was handled by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Akram Gharib and Mohamad Fadhly Mohd Zamri while the accused was represented by Datuk Shukri Mohamad.
Last August, Mohd Shukri who was produced at the Kuantan and Georgetown Sessions Court pleaded not guilty to 42 bribery charges involving a sum of RM508,418 received from several companies from 2013 to 2017.
Of the 42 charges, three were read again during today's proceedings.
Dazuki said the remaining 39 counts will be taken into consideration by the court. — Bernama