KUALA LUMPUR – A former member of the Hulu Selangor branch of the Pertubuhan Ikram Malaysia (Ikram) was charged at the Shah Alam Sessions Court today with 158 counts of using his position to obtain bribes amounting to RM98.27 million.
However, Fakhrudin Abd Karim, 57, pleaded not guilty after all the charges were read before Judge Datuk Mohd Nasir Nordin.
The reading of all 158 charges took nearly two hours, with two court interpreters taking turns to continuously read the charges.
Given the large number of charges and to expedite proceedings, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Senior Deputy Director of the Legal and Prosecution Division, Datuk Ahmad Akram Gharib, requested that only the essential elements of each offence be read out in court.
According to charges one to 149, Fakhrudin, as a public body officer, namely an IKRAM member authorized to sign on the NGO’s Maybank Islamic Bukit Bintang branch account was alleged to have abused his position to obtain bribes totaling RM81,950,000 for a management company affiliated with him through 149 transactions.
For charges 150 to 158, he was accused of the same offence by directing transfers of the NGO’s funds into two of his personal bank accounts totaling RM16,320,315.20 through nine transactions.
If convicted, he faces imprisonment of up to 20 years and a fine of not less than five times the value of the bribe or RM10,000, whichever is higher, according to Malaysia Gazette.
All the offences were allegedly committed at the organization’s Hulu Selangor branch office at Pusat Perniagaan Adenium, Bukit Beruntung, Rawang, between January 6, 2021 and August 6, 2025.
Each charge was framed under Section 23(1) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act 2009, punishable under Section 24(1) of the same Act.
Meanwhile, the case was fixed for mention on August 7, 2026.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Datuk Ahmad Akram Gharib, who handled the case, proposed bail of RM1 million for the accused.
However, the defence counsel, Datuk N. Sivananthan, appealed for a lower bail amount, arguing that all of Fakhrudin’s personal accounts, including his company’s accounts, as well as his vehicles, had been frozen by the MACC.
The judge allowed bail of RM500,000 and ordered the accused to surrender his international passport to the court.
Mohd Nasir then set August 2026 as the next case mention date. – June 16, 2026
Former Ikram member pleads not guilty to 158 charges of abuse of power involving more than RM98 million
KUALA LUMPUR – A former member of the Hulu Selangor branch of the Pertubuhan Ikram Malaysia (IKRAM) was charged at the Shah Alam Sessions Court today with 157 counts of using his position to obtain bribes amounting to RM98.27 million.
However, Fakhrudin Abd Karim, 57, pleaded not guilty after all the charges were read before Judge Datuk Mohd Nasir Nordin.
The reading of all 158 charges took nearly two hours, with two court interpreters taking turns to continuously read the charges.
Given the large number of charges and to expedite proceedings, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Senior Deputy Director of the Legal and Prosecution Division, Datuk Ahmad Akram Gharib, requested that only the essential elements of each offence be read out in court.
According to charges one to 149, Fakhrudin, as a public body officer, namely an IKRAM member authorized to sign on the NGO’s Maybank Islamic Bukit Bintang branch account was alleged to have abused his position to obtain bribes totaling RM81,950,000 for a management company affiliated with him through 149 transactions.
For charges 150 to 158, he was accused of the same offence by directing transfers of the NGO’s funds into two of his personal bank accounts totaling RM16,320,315.20 through nine transactions.
If convicted, he faces imprisonment of up to 20 years and a fine of not less than five times the value of the bribe or RM10,000, whichever is higher, according to Malaysia Gazette.
All the offences were allegedly committed at the organization’s Hulu Selangor branch office at Pusat Perniagaan Adenium, Bukit Beruntung, Rawang, between January 6, 2021 and August 6, 2025.
Each charge was framed under Section 23(1) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act 2009, punishable under Section 24(1) of the same Act.
Meanwhile, the case was fixed for mention on August 7, 2026.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Datuk Ahmad Akram Gharib, who handled the case, proposed bail of RM1 million for the accused.
However, the defence counsel, Datuk N. Sivananthan, appealed for a lower bail amount, arguing that all of Fakhrudin’s personal accounts, including his company’s accounts, as well as his vehicles, had been frozen by the MACC.
The judge allowed bail of RM500,000 and ordered the accused to surrender his international passport to the court.
Mohd Nasir then set August 2026 as the next case mention date. – June 16, 2026