By LOURDES CHARLES
The Star
Federal Commercial Crimes Investigation Director Datuk Ramli Yusoff will be slapped with a fourth charge – for abuse of power – in Sabah today.
Ramli, who was a former Sabah Commissioner of Police, is expected to be produced in a Sessions Court here on charges under Section 15 of the Anti-Corruption Act.
The senior officer was charged in Kuala Lumpur on Nov 1 with not disclosing information about two office units belonging to his sisters and on shares which he allegedly owned.
He is on RM20,000 bail and has been suspended from his post.
Ramli has returned from performing the umrah in Mecca with the Kelantan royalty.
It is learnt that the latest charge against Ramli, 55, is centred on allegations that he had used a Cessna aircraft belonging to the Police Air Wing to inspect his land project in Lahad Datu.
ACA deputy director-general Datuk Abu Kassim Mohamed confirmed that Ramli would be charged here.
The senior officer, in his capacity as a public servant, was also charged with being involved in business as a company director.
He claimed trial to all three charges at a Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur.
Ramli, who rose from the ranks to be among the top cops in the country, is the most senior police officer ever to be charged in a corruption case in the country.
The Nov 1 charges against him were:
THAT he failed to reveal information on two office units in Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, which belong to his elder sister Rohmah @ Hasmah and younger sister, Roslina.
The two units are worth RM1mil. The two sisters are directors of an investment holding company, Bonus Circle Sdn Bhd.
THAT he failed to disclose information on 154,000 units of shares worth about RM200,000 in a property company, Permaju Industries Bhd, at the same place and time.
THE third was a summons charge where he was accused of unlawfully engaging in business in Kinsajaya Sdn Bhd on April 25 last year.
If convicted, Ramli could be sentenced to 20 years’ jail and fined a maximum of RM100,000 on each of the two charges under Section 32(2) of the Anti-Corruption Act 1997.
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