Former Malaysian External Intelligence Organisation (MEIO) chief Datuk Hasanah expected to be charged on Thursday

Former intelligence chief Hasanah likely to be charged CBT involving RM49.9 million on Thursday

Ahmad Johari Mohd Ali
New Straits Times23 October 2018



KUALA LUMPUR: Former Malaysian External Intelligence Organisation (MEIO) chief Datuk Hasanah Abdul Hamid is expected to be charged on Thursday in connection with the disappearance of US$12 million (RM49.9 million).

Sources said Hasanah will be charged at a Sessions Court at the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex in Jalan Duta.

It is understood that she will be charged under Section 409 of the Penal Code for criminal breach of trust (CBT) by a public servant.

The section reads: Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property, in his capacity of a public servant or an agent, commits criminal breach of trust in respect of that property, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than two years and not more than twenty years and with whipping, and shall also be liable to fine.

Hasanah was detained by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on Aug 28 on suspicion of abusing her power to make off with government monies which had been set aside for the 14th general election.

MACC investigators obtained a six-day remand order against her the following day.

Hasanah had been surrounded by controversy before when it came to light that she had sent a letter to the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States’s own external intelligence agency.

The letter had been sent to ask for the US’s continued support of the Barisan Nasional government even if it achieved only a one-seat majority, though it was widely misconstrued as having been to ask the CIA to intervene should BN lose in GE14. © New Straits Times Press