The Managing Director of a Brunei construction and realty company who has been barred from entering Brunei was produced in the Magistrate's Court yesterday after he was extradited to face a charge of bribery.

Liew Say Khoo was charged with bribing Superintendent Haji Khairur Rijal bin Haji Abu Salim with a Toyota Hilux sometime in 2012 in order for him to assist Liew in repeatedly entering and exiting Brunei between 2011 and 2013.

No plea was taken from the defendant.

Liew was expelled from Brunei after serving a two-year jail sentence, passed in 2007, for the assault of his girlfriend, not amounting to culpable homicide, causing her death.

In 2015, Haji Khairur Rijal was charged in court for receiving bribes and abuse of power but shortly after, the prosecution entered a nolle prosequi to the case, where the then Internal Security Department took over and detained him for his involvement in crime syndicates locally and overseas in which he had abused his powers and risked national security.

Chief Magistrate Muhammed Faisal bin Pehin Dato Kefli adjourned the case yesterday to November 8 in order to let DPP Christopher Ng finalise the case before pursuing further. The court also ordered for Liew to be remanded at Jerudong Prisons.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau's investigations said the defendant was arrested in Miri, Sarawak, by Malaysia's Anti-Corruption Commission in a joint efforts between Brunei and Malaysia's anticorruption bodies with the coordination of Brunei's Attorney General's Chambers' Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition Secretariat.

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by BruDirect.com

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