KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 -- Construction company Mamfor Sdn Bhd's managing director Shahradzi Shamsuddin said his firm had donated RM19.5 million to Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia in 2021 and 2022, as he viewed the RM605.2 million government project awarded to his younger brother's company Sutracom Sdn Bhd as being due to then prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's 2021 minutes.

Shahradzi, who will be 44 this year, today clarified why he had followed Malaysia's Bumiputera contractors' association's president Datuk Azman Yusoff's repeated recommendations starting from around April or May 2021 to donate to Bersatu.

"I'm of the view that Datuk Azman asked me to donate to Bersatu as my brother's company had obtained the Pulau Indah project ...