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Bagan member of Parliament Lim Guan Eng: Penang, which lacks natural resources, needs a fresh economic driver to maintain its momentum and advance further.

Ibrahim Sahari, 59, said fellow former senior director Datuk Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli told him that said money was paid to ensure that CZCSB secured future projects.

Azli Adam, 58, said the conversation took place at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) headquarters in Putrajaya in January 2018, in the interrogation room.

Lim Guan Eng, who is also DAP chairman, faces two counts of dishonest misappropriation of property in releasing two plots of state-owned land to Ewein Zenith Sdn Bhd and Zenith Urban Development Sdn Bhd — two companies linked to the undersea tunnel project.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 12): Former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng’s appointed private law firm made a “big mistake” when evaluating the preliminary agreement of the Penang undersea tunnel project between the Penang state government and Construction Zenith BUCG Sdn Bhd, the Sessions Court heard on Friday (Nov 12).

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 12): The Court of Appeal (CoA) has fixed Nov 16 to deliver its decision on former Penang chief minister and Bagan Member of Parliament (MP) Lim Guan Eng’s appeal to transfer his undersea tunnel graft trial from the Sessions Court to the High Court.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 12): A former Penang state secretary testified on on Thursday (Nov 11) that former chief minister Lim Guan Eng had not declared at a state executive council (exco) meeting in January 2011 that he had met Beijing Urban Construction Group (BUCG) managing director Datuk Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli over the undersea tunnel project.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 11): Sessions Court judge Azura Alwi on Thursday (Nov 11) rebuked deputy public prosecutor Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin for not informing the court and defence that the prosecution did not intend to use the written witness statement prepared for ex-Penang state secretary Datuk Seri Farizan Darus, who is testifying in former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng's corruption trial involving the proposed Penang Undersea Tunnel.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 8): The hearing for the corruption trial of former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng involving the Penang undersea tunnel project, which was supposed to resume today till Friday (Sept 10), has been postponed.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 20): Beijing Urban Construction Group (BUCG) supposedly had an advantage over other bidders in tendering for the Penang undersea tunnel project as it participated in several state government meetings, over a year before the project was eventually awarded to it, the Sessions Court heard today.