Sime Darby Engineering former senior manager Mazhazni Jamaludin, 36, has claimed trial to obtaining a RM200,000 bribe over the contract for three barges worth USD134.2mil two years ago.
He was accused of obtaining the money from MLC Shipbuildings Sdn Bhd owner Redzuan Goh Mohamad Karian, as reward for proposing a contract to build and sell the barges at MLC Shipbuildings office in Kulala Lumpur between 1.25pm and 5pm on Dec 31, 2008.
He also allegedly endorsed payments for the building of the three barges.
The charge under Section 11(a) of the Anti-Corruption Act 1997 carries a jail term of between 14 days and 20 years and fine not less than five times the amount of the bribe.
DPP Anthony Kevin Morais (from Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission) offered bail to be set at RM20,000 with one surety.
In mitigating for lower bail, Mazhazni's counsel Shamsul Sulaiman said that throughout the investigations, his client had always been told that he would be called only as a witness but instead he was charged with the offence.
"My client says he was tortured during the investigations, stripped naked, blindfolded and asked to do things in front of the person interrogating him.
"He was made to stand on one foot and also threatened," he said adding that he would be filing a police report on the matter.
Morais said the accused had been released on a RM10,000 MACC bail since June this year and if the allegations were true, he could have filed a police report much earlier.
The court then set bail at RM20,000 with one surety and Jan 7 for mention.
