Former Umno treasurer, company chairman Azim squeezed funds from investors, says witness
V. Anbalagan, The Malaysian Insider
A Sessions Court heard that former Umno treasurer Datuk Abdul Azim Mohd Zabidi (pic) had “pressured the managing director of Doxport Technologies Sdn Bhd for funds” from British investors.
Prosecution witness Riaz Ahmed Ramzan, one of 60 British investors in the ‘cheating and money laundering’ case against Thechinamoorthy Sivalingam, made the revelation during the on-going trial which began on Monday.
The witness said Azim, the then Doxport chairman, pressured T. Sivalingam for funds from the investment.
He further stated that Doxport supplied “fake invoices for telecom switches” valued at US$2,040,000 (RM7.1 million) that British investors believed they were investing in.
Riaz said Doxport also supplied British investors with invoices issued by the company to Singtel amounting to US$5,000,0000 (RM17.5 millon) which were later confirmed to be fake.
The witness told the court that he and House of Lords member Lord Nazir Ahmed met with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in 2010 to resolve his group’s investment with Doxport.
Riaz further stated that they met Azim in the House of Lords in the presence of Nazir where the investors informed Azim of an alleged ‘scam’.
“Azim promised to investigate the scam . He later visited the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur and claimed there was no fraud,” he said in his testimony
He said they also met Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir (the then international trade and industries deputy minister) to find a solution, but nothing came out of it.
This prompted Riaz, who will continue with his testimony on January 19 before judge Azhaniz Teh Azman Teh, to lodge a police report against Doxport in Kuala Lumpur in 2011.
