[UPDATED] Bung Moktar, wife fail in final bid to challenge corruption charges [WATCH]
PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin and his wife, Datin Seri Zizie Izette Abd Samad, failed in their final bid to challenge the Court of Appeal's decision ordering them to enter their defence on corruption charges amounting to RM2.8 million.
This is after a three-judge Court of Appeal panel led by Datuk Che Mohd Ruzima Ghazali unanimously dismissed the couple's leave application to review the decision today.
The court said the appellants failed to meet the threshold of proving any exceptional circumstances or miscarriage of justice that would warrant a review of the earlier decision.
On Nov 18 last year, the Court of Appeal ordered Bung Moktar and Zizie Izette to enter their defence on three corruption charges after allowing the prosecution's appeal against the couple's acquittal by the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Sept 7, 2023.
On Sept 2, 2022, Sessions Court judge Rozina Ayob ruled that a prima facie case had been established against the accused at the close of the prosecution's case and ordered them to enter their defence on all three charges.
On May 3, 2019, the Kinabatangan member of Parliament was charged with two counts of accepting bribes amounting to RM2.2 million and RM262,500 as an inducement to secure Felcra's approval to invest RM150 million in Public Mutual unit trusts.
He was alleged to have accepted the bribes from Madhi, an investment agent with Public Mutual Bhd, through Zizie Izette at Public Bank's Taman Melawati branch here between 12.30pm and 5pm on June 12, 2015.
Zizie Izette was charged with three counts of abetting her husband at the same location, date, and time.
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