Wan Quoris Shah Wan Abdul Ghani concurred with defence lawyer Hamidi Mohd Noh who showed the former UKSB director the company’s audited accounts between 2014 and 2018.

As of Dec 31, 2014, the company’s profit after tax was RM625,000 while cash in hand was RM1.5 million.

Hamidi: Would you agree with me that the company did not have the capacity to provide gifts or pay bribes based on its audited accounts?

Wan Quoris: Yes.

The 16th prosecution witness also repeatedly said UKSB was in no position to shower gifts or pay bribes to anyone between 2015 and 2018.

In 2015, the firm’s profit after tax was about RM114,000, followed by RM4.9 million in 2016, RM2.8 million in 2017 and RM351,000 in 2018.

Meanwhile, the firm’s cash in the bank stood at RM2.8 million in 2015, RM4.6 million in 2016, RM9 million in 2017 and RM1.3 million in 2018.

These audited financial statements were provided by another UKSB director, Fadzil Ahmad, a prosecution witness when he was cross-examined by the defence last month.

These financial statements were not part of the documents given to the defence as required under Section 51 of the Criminal Procedure Code to prepare their case.

Zahid, 69, is facing 33 charges of receiving bribes amounting to S$13.56 million (RM42 million) from UKSB as an inducement for himself in his capacity as a civil servant and the then home minister to extend the contract of the company as the operator of the One-Stop Centre (OSC) in China and the Foreign Visa System (VLN) system, as well as to maintain the agreement to supply VLN integrated system paraphernalia to the same company by the ministry.

On another seven counts, he is charged as the home minister to have obtained for himself S$1,150,000, RM3 million, €15,000 and US$15,000 in cash from the same company in connection with his official work.

He is charged with committing all the offences at Seri Satria in Presint 16, Putrajaya, and Country Heights, Kajang, between October 2014 and March 2018.

The trial before judge Yazid Mustafa continues.