SHAH ALAM: Pandan Umno division chief Abd Ghani Ismail, who was charged with 10 counts of corruption amounting to RM210,000, has been suspended from the party.
Selangor Umno liaison committee deputy chairman Datuk Noh Omar said the party’s supreme council has issued a letter of suspension to Abd Ghani and that he would be suspended until the court decided on his case.
“He can regain his position if he is cleared of the charges,” he told reporters after chairing the Selangor Umno management meeting here on Monday night.
Noh said that Pandan Umno deputy chief Mej (Rtd) Izeham A. Hamid has been appointed as acting chief to look after the division for the time being.
On May 26, Abd Ghani claimed trial at a Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur to obtaining bribes from the owner of a solid waste management company in return for securing contracts from the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (MPAJ).
At that time, he was the division’s Youth chief and a member of MPAJ’s tender committee.
He was also separately charged with bribery by getting a company, in which he had a indirect interest, to be appointed as a sub-contractor to another company which had been awarded a contract by MPAJ to manage solid waste in Bandar Pandan Jaya.
On another matter, Noh announced that eight Petaling Jaya Selatan division committee members and branch chiefs, who left Umno at the end of last year with their division chief Kapt (Rtd) Datuk Zahar Hashim, have returned to Umno.
He said they were among 28 branch leaders and 13 committee members who had quit the party with Zahar to join PAS.
“The party will always welcome them and we hope their return is sincere,” he said, adding that it would help to strengthen Umno.
Noh said all the eight were still members of Umno as the party supreme council had not issued them termination letters.
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