KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court was today told that a complaint was sent to Petronas in December 2024 alleging that its former manager, Mohd Khairul Akmal Mohd Jasni, had attempted to send confidential information on the national oil company's business and financial performance to Petroleum Sarawak Berhad (PETROS).
Petronas Senior Manager for Complaint Management, Laila Badriah Razali, 45, testified that she received the complaint via the Petronas Whistleblowing email channel from the complainant's personal email address at 10am on Dec 6, 2024.
"According to the complaint, Mohd Khairul Akmal had sent confidential information relating to Petronas' Upstream Business performance for the first quarter of 2024 from his personal email account to PETROS.
"The information was allegedly sent to two email addresses on June 8, 2024. However, we only received the complaint on Dec 6, 2024. Prior to that, we had not received any similar complaints, including during June 2024," she said when reading out her witness statement.
Laila Badriah, the fourth prosecution witness, was testifying in the trial of Mohd Khairul Akmal, who is charged with attempting to disclose the confidential report to PETROS in June 2024.
She said that upon receiving the complaint, she immediately referred the matter to Petronas Chief Integrity Officer Mohamad Zakkuan Talib, who chaired the company's Whistleblowing Committee.
"After reviewing the complaint, Mohamad Zakkuan decided that the matter should be...
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