A key prosecution witness in Lim Guan Eng’s corruption trial linked to the RM6.3 billion Penang undersea tunnel project testified he did not tell the MACC in 2018 about the accused allegedly asking for 10 percent of the future profit of the project’s value.

However, Consortium Zenith Construction director Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli reiterated in his court testimony that this was because the statement he gave MACC in March 2018 was about the agency’s then investigation against businessperson G Gnanaraja.

Zarul was giving...