Tei released covert videos showing state lawmakers engaged in bribe negotiations with him, implicating several prominent figures in Malaysia’s second-largest state.
Southern Alliance Mining (SAM) has issued a statement on the alleged involvement of its managing director Pek Kok Sam in a mining scandal in Sabah. The group and Pek “collectively strongly deny and refute the allegations, which are highly defamatory and factually incorrect”, the statement reads.
Pek has been identified as the financial backer of Albert Tei, who has been charged on Monday alongside assemblymen Yusof Yacob and Andi Suryady Bandy with bribery in exchange for helping to facilitate the approval of a mineral prospecting licence. The bribes were alleged to be over RM350,000.
