Businessperson G Gnanaraja rejected the defence’s claim that a bag containing RM1 million was never handed to Lim Guan Eng, maintaining that the exchange did take place openly and while Lim was dressed in his official attire as Penang chief minister.

Gnanaraja (above, left), 44, said this under cross-examination by Ramkarpal Singh, who is representing Lim in the corruption trial linked to the Penang major roads and undersea tunnel project involving the Bagan MP.