KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court today heard 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 Bhd (Petros).
Petronas senior manager for complaint management, Laila Badriah Razali, 45, testified that she received the complaint through the Petronas whistleblowing (WB) email channel from the complainant's personal email account at 10am on Dec 6, 2024.
"According to the complaint, Khairul 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 in June 2024," she said when reading her witness statement.
Laila, the fourth prosecution witness, was testifying in the trial of Khairul, 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, Zakkuan decided the matter should be referred to the Human Resource-Industrial Relations...
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