Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin, the prime minister’s former senior political secretary and mining boss Albert Tei Jiann Cheng, were charged at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court on Thursday (Dec 4). KUALA LUMPUR: A former personal aide to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and a businessman at the centre of a corruption scandal have both claimed trial to four counts each of receiving and offering bribes involving a total of RM176,829.03 (US$42, 945) at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court on Thursday (Dec 4).