Broker sold watch to director linked to undersea tunnel project, court hears

A watch broker testified that he sold a RM40,000 luxury watch to a key prosecution witness in the Penang Undersea Tunnel project corruption case, the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court heard today.

Fifth prosecution witness G Rajan gave oral evidence that he sold the watch to Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli, a senior executive director of Consortium Zenith Construction Sdn Bhd. The company was the main contractor for the project.

However during the corruption trial of Lim Guan Eng linked to the project, Rajan also testified that he had never met the former Penang chief minister and that he does not know what the watch transaction has anything to do with the case.

Deputy public prosecutor Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin called Rajan, 66, who, during examination-in-chief, testified that he sold...