JOHOR assemblyman Abdul Latif Bandi has resigned from his position as Johor state executive councillor today.
 
In a four-paragraph media statement today, Latif Band said he was quitting following yesterday’s charges of corruption levelled against him in the Johor Baru Sessions Court yesterday.
 
The media statement was sent by his lawyers Adzly and Co.
 
The former state housing and local government councillor thanked the Johor sultan and the Johor menteri besar for appointing him to the post from which he was resigning.
 
“I pray that my family and I can get through this difficult period,” wrote Latif Bandi.
 
On March 9, Latif Bandi was held for allegedly assisting the illegal conversion of hundreds of plots of Bumiputera land worth millions of ringgit to non-Bumiputera status.
 
Among those detained by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) leading to the charge yesterday were Latif’s son, a special political officer, a lawyer and a property developer.
 
During a raid, MACC officers recovered more than RM500,000 cash, 21 luxury cars and motorcycles and 150 designer handbags. The anti-graft body also found 45 bank accounts belonging to the suspects amounting to some RM15 million.
 
Yesterday, Latif Bandi and Amir Sharifuddin Abdul Raub were jointly charged with 33 counts of graft involving RM30 million.
 
The two were charged under Section 28(1) (c) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act. – April 20, 2017.