Rosmah sentenced to 10 years’ jail, fined RM970mil
KUALA LUMPUR: Rosmah Mansor has been sentenced to 10 years in jail and fined RM970 million after being found guilty of corruption in connection with the RM1.25 billion Sarawak rural schools’ solar energy project.
However, the court granted her request to suspend the jail sentence and fine pending her appeal to the Court of Appeal.
Rosmah, 70, had earlier been found guilty of all three counts of corruption against her.
She had been charged with soliciting RM187.5 million from former Jepak Holdings Sdn Bhd managing director Saidi Abang Samsudin through her former aide, Rizal Mansor, as an inducement to help the company secure the RM1.25 billion Sarawak rural schools’ solar energy project.
She was also charged with receiving a bribe amounting to RM5 million from Saidi, through Rizal, at Seri Perdana in Putrajaya on Dec 20, 2016, and receiving another RM1.5 million from Saidi at Jalan Langgak Duta on Sept 7, 2017.
Judge Zaini Mazlan sentenced Rosmah to 10 years in prison for each of the three graft charges, and ordered her sentences to run concurrently.
Zaini said if Rosmah failed to pay the RM970 million fine, she will have to serve another 10 years in prison, after she completes her initial 10-year sentence.
The prosecution did not object to Rosmah’s bid to suspend her sentence and fine.
She is released on a RM2 million bail that she previously paid when she was first charged in court four years ago.
Source : Free Malaysia Today