Perak frogs freed

the bastard frog......Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi

Perak assemblymen Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi and Mohd Osman Mohd Jailu, the two protagonists in the fall of the Pakatan Rakyat government last year, have been freed of their corruption charges.

They, along with three others who were charged with corruption involving an RM180mil housing development project in Seri Iskandar near Ipoh, had their charges dropped in a Sessions Court in Ipoh this afternoon.

Judge Azhaniz Teh Azman Teh delivered the highly-anticipated decision in open court and declared that the prosecution had failed to prove a prima facie case against the five accused.

“As such, all five are acquitted and discharged without their defences called,” he said.

After a six month-long gruelling trial, the judgement was delivered in a short one-minute to a courtroom packed with supporters and friends of the five accused.

Cheers were heard in court at the announcement of their dismissal.

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Deputy Public Prosecutor Shahrullah Khan said the prosecution would be filing an appeal to the High Court soon.

In an immediate reaction, Jamaluddin told reporters that the decision was as he had expected.

“I anticipated the results. I am thankful for it,” he told reporters.

Mohd Osman said that the first thing that he would do was to put all his concentration on serving his constituents in Changkat Jering.

“I have been so busy the past six months... moving up and down to the court room,” he said.

Defence counsel Surjan Singh who is representing PKR politician Usaili Alias in the case, also agreed that the decision had not been a surprise.

“This was obviously a case of fix-up and not a corruption case per se, as I have already submitted in court.

“We have proven it. Like I said in my submissions, I pointed out that even the land supposedly shown to (MACC agent provocateur) Mohammad Imran (Abdullah) was never earmarked for the Perak Tengah district council for the said project,” he told The Malaysian Insider when contacted.

The five accused were charged with allegedly soliciting for bribes between RM1,400 and RM100,000 in exchange for helping him develop a 36ha piece of land for the RM180mil housing project in Seri Iskandar in 2008.

The five, including Jamaluddin, Mohd Osman, Usaili, former Perak Tengah district councillor Zul Hassan and businessman Fairul Azrim Ismail, were slapped with 16 charges of corruption in 2008.

Of the five, Zul and Fairul were also slapped with charges of sex bribes when they allegedly accepted the sexual services of Chinese nationals.

A sixth person, former Perak Development Corporation technician Ruslan Sahat, was also charged with the group but passed away in late 2008 and all charges against him were dropped.

Both Jamaluddin and Mohd Osman, along with another former PR comrade Hee Yit Foong of the DAP, were blamed for the fall of the PR government last year after they deserted their respective parties to become Barisan Nasional-friendly Independents.

Their defection had caused the wafer-thin majority held by the PR in the state assembly to turn in favour of the Barisan Nasional, thus leading to the controversial Constitutional impasse that rocked the state for over a year. In the 59-seat assembly at present, both PR and BN control the same number of seats at 28 each.



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Nothing is a surprise now-a-day. The corrupted will judge the corrupted. What happen to our country - nothing but shame, shame, shame.

Frogs freed, but the laws are put behind bars.

Where is justice? Swallowed and disposed of conveniently.

The rakyat must jump!

So thats the price they have to pay for frogging.

It was 110% EXPECTED that these 2 frogs will be acquitted! Every Perakians knew that after they jumped ship and became goons of BN. This further proofs how corrupted the powers that be are............................similar to the ways of the Mafia----extortion, betrayal, corruption, persecution, kidnapping, bigotry etc. etc.......

By the way, what has the frog Hee done that she deserved to be awarded Datukship? For betraying the folks of Jelapang? She don't even dare to come to Jelapang nowadays.

The moral of the story is that if you want to be corrupted, better join Barisan Nasional! They will condone your action, nay, even eke you on, LOL.

Mohamed Khir Toyo forgave Zakaria Mat Deros, the Klang assemblyman (UMNO) in Selangor , for building an illegal istana, while he himself built a RM24 million (at least) one which is even bigger than the one owned by Zakaria. Khir Toyo claimed that as a dentist before becoming mentri besar, he could afford to build the house. How many teeth did he extract? Well, all we need to see is his income tax returns. But has the government does that? No! It's corruption that makes Barisan Nasional stay alive.