Businessman seeks to set aside corruption charges involving RM15m bribe

KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 — Company director Datuk Seri Sim Choo Thiam who is facing four counts of soliciting and accepting bribes amounting to RM15 million to secure projects from...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 — Company director Datuk Seri Sim Choo Thiam who is facing four counts of soliciting and accepting bribes amounting to RM15 million to secure projects from the Home Ministry has filed a notice to set aside the charges.

Sim, 53, claimed that the public prosecutor as the respondent had breached their statutory obligations under Sections 153 and 154 of the Criminal Procedure Code and that the investigation into the case was incomplete. Sim was charged with committing the offences on May 10 this year, during which he pleaded not guilty to all the charges.Sim was charged with soliciting a RM15 million bribe from Hep Kim Hong, the managing director of Asia Coding Centre Sdn Bhd, through Syed Abu Zafran Syed Ahmad, as an inducement for the then Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin to award projects to the company.

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