‘Ex-CID chief got 1% commission’

RM931,500 was over sale of hotels, court told

Former Kuala Lumpur CID chief Datuk Ku Chin Wah, who has been charged under the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act 2001, received 1% commission each totalling RM931,500 from the sale of two hotels in Jalan Bukit Bintang between 2009 and 2014, a Sessions Court here heard.

Retired police officer Datuk Khoo Ah See, 73, said he was informed by businessman Datuk Seri Kok Kuan Hwa that Kok wished to purchase a building next to Fortuna Hotel which was for sale at RM5.5mil.

Khoo, who was the former Kuala Lumpur deputy police chief, said Kok, 47, also wanted to buy Fortuna Hotel, which was for sale at RM98mil.

He said Kok told him that he would give a 1% commission or RM55,000 from the purchase of the first building, which was later named Izumi Hotel, and another 1% or RM980,000 commission for the Fortuna Hotel transaction to Ku.

“I informed Ku that out of the commission he received, he must pay me 10% commission for each transaction and I feel it is fair,” said the seventh prosecution witness, replying to a question by deputy public prosecutor Budiman Lutfi Mohamed before Judge Sohaini Alias yesterday.

To another question posed by Budiman on whether there was any written agreement on the commission discussed between him and Kok, Khoo replied, “No”.

To another question on how he came to

I informed Ku that out of the commission he received, he must pay me 10% commission for each transaction and I feel it is fair. datuk Khoo Ah see

know Ku, Khoo, who served in the police force for 36 years and retired in 1998, said at that time, Ku was Acting Deputy Supt and was the aide-de-camp to former InspectorGeneral of Police Tan Sri Rahim Noor.

Later, under cross-examination by Ku’s counsel Datuk Geethan Ram Vincent whether Khoo agreed that the money (commission) was not a bribe and it did not come from unlawful activities, he replied “I agree”.

Khoo was the last witness who testified in the trial of Ku, who is alleged to have failed to comply with the terms of a prosecutor's notice under Section 49 (1) of the Act dated Dec 23, 2013.

Ku failed to declare all his sources of income in a sworn statement dated Jan 8, 2014 and was accused under Section 49(3) of the Act.

The offence was said to have been committed at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission office in Putrajaya from Dec 23, 2013 to Jan 21, 2014.