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November 03, 2009 21:21 PM
BN And Pakatan Rakyat Leaders "Friends" At Court
SHAH ALAM, Nov 3 (Bernama) -- In Parliament, the Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat leaders may be at logger-heads, but at the Sessions Courts here Tuesday, they were seen engaging in friendly conversations.
They were there to lend support to their colleagues who were brought to the court today to face various charges.
Among the MPs were Datuk Halimah Sadique (BN-Tenggara), Datuk Ahmad Hamzah (BN-Jasin), Dr Mohd Hatta Md Ramli (PAS-Kuala Krai), Datuk Dr Mohamad Shahrum Osman (BN-Lipis), Mohd Nor Othman (BN-Hulu Terengganu) and Datuk Noraini Ahmad (BN-Parit Sulong).
Also present were Kampung Tunku assemblyman Lau Weng Sang, Parti Keadilan Rakyat Youth head Shamsul Iskandar Mat Akin and Selangor state executive councillor Ronnie Liu, whose special aide, Wong Chuan How, was charged with making a false claim and two counts of committing criminal breach of trust involving a total of RM7,500.
There were also about 100 BN and Pakatan Rakyat supporters at the courts.
Besides Wong, five others, including Sabak Bernam Member of Parliament Datuk Abd. Rahman Bakri and former Teratai assemblyman Yap Soo Su, both from BN, were charged with various offences involving irregularities in the disbursement of state funds.
Abdul Rahman pleaded not guilty to eight counts of making false claims when he was the assemblyman for Sungai Ayer Tawar last year, while Yap pleaded not guilty to seven counts of submitting applications containing false particulars for allocations totalling RM70,000 for festival programmes which were not held.
Abdul Rahman's aide, Rosli Busro, 41, pleaded not guilty to abetting Abdul Rahman in committing the eight offences, while Yap's aide, Mohd Firdaus Abu Zarin, 41, pleaded not guilty to abetting Yap on all seven counts.
A former special aide to Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, Mohd Yahya Mat Sahri was charged with cheating and using forged documents.
The proceedings was supposed to start at 8am, but only began about noon. Deputy public prosecutor from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Datuk Abdul Razak Musa told reporters he took three hours to process the documents for registration of the cases.
-- BERNAMA
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