ALOR SETAR: A senior lecturer claimed trial in a Sessions Court here to a total of 33 counts of abuse of power and making false claims amounting to RM1.48mil, while a contractor denied six counts of making false claims amounting to RM492,000.
Assoc Prof Hartini Ahmad, 49, a senior lecturer at a local university in Kedah, and contractor Nazrul Idham Abu Nasir, 42, faced the charges of making false claims (Hartini – 11 charges; Nazrul – six charges) under Section 18 of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009.