Najib dalangi dakwaan gangguan seksual ke atas saya, kata bekas menteri
Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah (kanan) ialah saksi pendakwaan ke-56 dalam perbicaraan rasuah Najib Razak.
KUALA LUMPUR: Bekas menteri kewangan kedua, Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah dalam perbicaraan rasuah dan pecah amanah Najib Razak hari ini mendakwa bekas perdana menteri itu merancang dakwaan gangguan seksual dan rasuah terhadapnya, selepas beliau meletak jawatan pada 2016.
Husni yang merupakan saksi pendakwaan ke-56 dalam perbicaraan pemindahan wang dikaitkan kepada SRC International Sdn Bhd, menjawab soalan dikemukakan peguam Najib, Muhammad Shafee Abdullah.
Husni berkata, beliau meletak jawatan daripada Kabinet atas kehendak sendiri pada Jun 2016, tetapi bercakap kira-kira 30 minit mengenai masa depan negara dalam sidang Dewan Rakyat pada Oktober 2018 atas kapasiti ahli Parlimen Tambun.
Shafee kemudian bertanya Husni sama ada beliau bercakap di Dewan Rakyat kerana beliau dijadikan mangsa.
Shafee: Adakah anda marah ada dakwaan terhadap anda?
Husni: Ya.
Shafee: Adakah anda kaitan dakwaan ini kepada Najib atas gangguan seksual terhadap seorang kakitangan wanita di pejabat anda dan skandal kewangan?
Husni: Ya.
Shafee: Adakah laporan polis dibuat terhadap anda atas gangguan seksual itu?
Husni: Ya.
Ketika ini, Timbalan Pendakwa Raya ad hoc, V Sithambaram menolak soalan itu dengan berkata ia tidak relevan kepada pertuduhan.
“Soalan ini bertujuan memalukan saksi,” katanya.
Shafee berkata, Husni datang ke mahkamah dengan perasaan marah untuk membalas dendam terhadap Najib.
Katanya, itu hanya tanggapan Husni yang Najib merancang semua perkara itu.
Hakim, Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazlai berkata soalan mengenai gangguan seksual bersifat melampau dan bertujuan memalukan saksi.
Beliau kemudiannya tidak membenarkan peguam bertanya soalan mengenai perkara itu lagi.
Terdahulu, Husni memberitahu mahkamah yang beliau pertama kali membaca di akhbar pada 27 Jun 2016 yang Najib berniat memindahkannya ke kementerian lain.
“Saya jumpa beliau selepas satu mesyuarat Majlis Ekonomi pada hari sama dan beliau maklumkan saya akan dipindahkan ke Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan.”
Husni berkata, beliau meminta Najib mengeluarkannya daripada Kabinet.
Saksi itu berkata, beliau mahu meletak jawatan pada 2015, tetapi memilih untuk kekal dalam Kabinet bagi melengkapkan program rasionalisasi kerajaan untuk melangsaikan hutang RM42 bilion yang dihutang 1MDB.
Husni berkata, disebabkan hormat kepada Najib, beliau memberitahu media dan penduduk di kawasan Parlimennya yang beliau meninggalkan kerajaan disebabkan isu 1MDB serta SRC International.
Najib berdepan 6 pertuduhan pengubahan wang dan pecah amanah dalam pemindahan RM42 juta dari SRC International ke akaunnya, bekas anak syarikat 1MDB.
Ahli Parlimen Pekan itu turut didakwa menyalahgunakan kuasa sebagai perdana menteri dengan memberi jaminan kerajaan ke atas pinjaman SRC International sebanyak RM4 bilion dari Kumpulan Wang Persaraan Diperbadankan.
Beliau didakwa melakukan kesalahan itu di AmIslamic Bank cawangan Jalan Raja Chulan dan Pejabat Perdana Menteri di Putrajaya antara 17 Ogos 2011 dan 10 Februari 2015.
Perbicaraan diteruskan di depan Nazlan.
Najib behind sexual misconduct claims against me, says ex-minister
KUALA LUMPUR: Former second finance minister Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah today accused Najib Razak of engineering sexual harassment and corruption allegations against him after he left office in 2016, the corruption trial of the former prime minister heard today.
Husni, the 56th prosecution witness in the trial on transfers of money linked to SRC International Sdn Bhd, was answering questions from Najib’s lead counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah.
Husni said he resigned from the Cabinet of his own accord in June 2016 but spoke for about 30 minutes about the future of the country in the Dewan Rakyat during a sitting in October that year, in his capacity as Tambun MP.
Shafee then asked Husni whether he spoke in the legislature because he (Husni) was victimised.
Shafee: Were you upset that there were allegations against you?
Husni: Yes.
Shafee: Did you associate these allegations with Najib over the sexual harassment against a female staff in your office and financial scandal?
Husni: Yes.
Shafee: Was there a police report made against you for the sexual harassment?
Husni: Yes.
At this juncture, ad hoc prosecutor V Sithambaram objected to the line of questioning, saying it was irrelevant to the charges.
“These questions are intended to embarrass the witness,” he said.
Shafee replied that Husni had come to the court as an angry man to take revenge against Najib.
The lawyer said it was only Husni’s perception that Najib had engineered the whole thing.
Trial judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali then ruled that the question on sexual harassment was scandalous and aimed at embarassing the witness.
He said there were to be no more questions on the matter.
Earlier, Husni told the court that he first read in the newspaper on June 27, 2016 that Najib intended to move him to another ministry.
“I met him after an Economic Council meeting on the same day and he informed me that I would be transferred to the housing and local government ministry,” he said.
Husni said he asked Najib to drop him from the Cabinet.
The witness said he wanted to resign in 2015 but chose to remain in the Cabinet to complete the government’s rationalisation programme to settle the RM42 billion owed by 1MDB.
Husni said out of respect for Najib, he told the media and his constituents that he left the government due to 1MDB and SRC International.
Najib is facing six charges of money laundering and criminal breach of trust in the transfer of RM42 million to his account from SRC International, a former unit of 1MDB.
He is also accused of abusing his power as prime minister by giving government guarantees on SRC International’s RM4 billion loan from Retirement Fund Inc.
He was charged with committing the offences at AmIslamic Bank Bhd in Jalan Raja Chulan and the Prime Minister’s Office in Putrajaya between Aug 17, 2011, and Feb 10, 2015.
The hearing continues.
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