Former Alcatel officer charged with bribery
Kuek Ser Kuang KengPublished: Jul 19, 2011 10:33 AM | Updated: Jul 19, 2011 3:38 PM
A former officer of Alcatel Network (M) Shd Bhd claimed trial to a charge of bribery in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today.
A former officer of Alcatel Network (M) Shd Bhd claimed trial to a charge of bribery in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today.
Former regional customer accounts leader Radziah Ani, 49, is alleged to have bribed Mohd Asri Idris, assistant manager of the Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) procurement department.
She is said to have paid him RM25,000 by cheque between 1pm and 2.30pm on Feb 17, 2006, at Hotel Shangri-La, Kuala Lumpur.
This was allegedly as inducement to obtain information about a tender 'for the supply of Wideband Code Division Multiple Access Mobile Communication System and the Provision of Works Phase II'.
DPP Fariza Hamzah said Radziah had wanted to obtain information about the bids put in by competitors to provide a new 3G mobile service to Celcom, the telecommunication company then owned by TM.
She also said Mohd Asri will be called as a prosecution witness.
Judge Rozilah Salleh fixed Aug 12 for mention and October for trial.
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adziah was charged under Section 10(b)(bb) of the Anti-Corruption Act 1997. If found guilty, she is liable to be jailed at least 14 days but not more than 20 years, and fined not less than five times the quantum of the bribe, under Section 16 of the same Act.
The court released her on RM12,000 bail and a guarantor. She is currently the deputy country manager of ZTE (M), a telecommunication equipments provider.
Alcatel Network (M) Shd Bhd operates under the global network of the Paris-based Alcatel-Lucent SA, which supplies telecommunications equipment.
Celcom is now a subsidiary of Axiata, a government-linked company previously known as TM International, a unit in TM.
Parent company fined
The bribery scandal made headlines last December when Alcatel-Lucent SA told two US authorities that it made improper payments to obtain contracts with Celcom. It had paid US$700,000 between 2004 and 2006 to two unidentified Malaysian consultants.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Alcatel's subsidiaries “used consultants who performed little or no legitimate work to funnel more than US$8 million in bribes to government officials in order to obtain or retain lucrative telecommunications contracts and other contracts”.
The company agreed to pay a US$137million fine to settle the charges, following a deal with the US Justice Department and SEC.
After news of the scandal broke, TM and Axiata suspended Alcatel from bidding for projects for 12 months with effect from early this year.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission initiated an investigation, while TM and Axiata conducted internal probes.
Former regional customer accounts leader Radziah Ani, 49, is alleged to have bribed Mohd Asri Idris, assistant manager of the Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) procurement department.
She is said to have paid him RM25,000 by cheque between 1pm and 2.30pm on Feb 17, 2006, at Hotel Shangri-La, Kuala Lumpur.
This was allegedly as inducement to obtain information about a tender 'for the supply of Wideband Code Division Multiple Access Mobile Communication System and the Provision of Works Phase II'.
DPP Fariza Hamzah said Radziah had wanted to obtain information about the bids put in by competitors to provide a new 3G mobile service to Celcom, the telecommunication company then owned by TM.
She also said Mohd Asri will be called as a prosecution witness.
Judge Rozilah Salleh fixed Aug 12 for mention and October for trial.
R
adziah was charged under Section 10(b)(bb) of the Anti-Corruption Act 1997. If found guilty, she is liable to be jailed at least 14 days but not more than 20 years, and fined not less than five times the quantum of the bribe, under Section 16 of the same Act.The court released her on RM12,000 bail and a guarantor. She is currently the deputy country manager of ZTE (M), a telecommunication equipments provider.
Alcatel Network (M) Shd Bhd operates under the global network of the Paris-based Alcatel-Lucent SA, which supplies telecommunications equipment.
Celcom is now a subsidiary of Axiata, a government-linked company previously known as TM International, a unit in TM.
Parent company fined
The bribery scandal made headlines last December when Alcatel-Lucent SA told two US authorities that it made improper payments to obtain contracts with Celcom. It had paid US$700,000 between 2004 and 2006 to two unidentified Malaysian consultants.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Alcatel's subsidiaries “used consultants who performed little or no legitimate work to funnel more than US$8 million in bribes to government officials in order to obtain or retain lucrative telecommunications contracts and other contracts”.
The company agreed to pay a US$137million fine to settle the charges, following a deal with the US Justice Department and SEC.
After news of the scandal broke, TM and Axiata suspended Alcatel from bidding for projects for 12 months with effect from early this year.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission initiated an investigation, while TM and Axiata conducted internal probes.
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