A Road Transport Department enforcement assistant was jailed a year and fined RM20,000 on two counts of bribery.
Norazha
Izwan Mohd Aripin, 27, was found guilty by the Sessions Court here
after he was called to enter his defence on both charges.
Judge Ahmad Zamzani Mohd Zain held that the defence had failed to raise a reasonable doubt in the prosecution’s case.
“The court found that the accused’s defence was a mere denial. It is an afterthought,” he said in his judgment.
Pleading
for leniency, his lawyer Mohd Shahrullah Khan Nawab Zadah Khan said his
client, whose wife was pregnant, was remorseful of his action and was a
first offender.
Prosecuting officer Mohd Nur Lokman Samingan
asked for an appropriate sentence to serve as a lesson for others and to
take into account public interest.
Norazha Izwan was convicted
of asking a bribe of RM1,000 from Ooi Aik Keng as an inducement not to
take action against him for an expired road tax offence near a petrol
station in Jalan Kuching at 5pm on Jan 4 last year.
He faced a
second charge of trying to obtain a bribe of RM1,000 from Ooi for the
same offence in front of a bank in Setapak at 8pm on the same day.
Source : The Star
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