(Left to right) Najib, Dr Mahathir, as well as Abdullah lift their hands during the finish of Umno annual assembly in Kuala Lumpur March 28, 2009. Reuters pic
KUALA LUMPUR, November seventeen Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, as well as Datuk Seri Najib Razak will be among the witnesses called to testify in the cheating trial of Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik, the High Court listened today. Defence counsel Wong Kian Kheong today read out the names of twelve members of the Cabinet from 2002 as well as the special mercantile adviser to the prime apportion during the time, as among the witnesses he intends to examine.
Dr Ling was charged in July final year with knowingly mean action the Cabinet in to approving the land squeeze for the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ), which resulted in wrongful losses for the government.
The former MCA president also faces two alternative charges of mean action the Cabinet in to desiring which the squeeze during RM25 psf as well as the 7.5 per cent seductiveness rate were acknowledged as well as agreed to by the government's Valuation as well as Property Services Department (JPPH) notwithstanding knowing which there was no such agreement.
Dr Ling faces up to seven years' jail as well as the fine if convicted of the principal charge underneath Section 418 of the Penal Code.
Wong is calling Cabinet members who were benefaction during the assembly which gave retrospective capitulation for the growth price of the PKFZ plan to fill up from RM1.088 billion to RM4.6 billion in 2007, as well as had since their statements to the police.
Among them are Tun Dr Lim Keng Yaik, Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, Datuk Seri Utama Dr Rais Yatim, Tan Sri Dr Leo Moggie anak Irok, as well as Tan Sri Abdul! Kadir S heikh Fadzir.
According to mins of the Cabinet assembly dated June 27, 2007 as well as chaired by Najib who was afterwards the deputy prime minister, the Cabinet approved the price increase to RM4,632,732,000.
In 2002, the Cabinet was told which RM1.088 billion was the sum price of the plan on the 999.5-acre land in Pulau Indah which comprised the land value, infrastructure price as well as the six per cent seductiveness rate.
The prosecution closed its case today with their final witness, investigating officer Supt R. Rajagopal, as the final of the twenty-five witnesses called.
Judge Datuk Ahmadi Asnawi after set December twelve as well as 13 for submissions.
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