KUCHING: A woman and a man were fined RM2,000 and RM2,500 respectively for operating an entertainment outlet in the city without a licence.
They pleaded guilty to the offence at a Magistrates’ court here.
In the first case, Chai Chiew Yian, 33, from Batu Kawa was arrested around 11pm on March 23 when a cyber cafe at Jalan Pisang West was raided by a police for carrying out illegal online gambling. Among items seized as exhibits were monitors, CPUs, keyboards and mouses.
The accused is the keeper of the cyber cafe. She was fined RM2,000 in default two months jail.
Meanwhile, William Tan Wei Loong , 29, from Jalan Desa Wira admitted he was the keeper of a cyber cafe operating online gambling at Jalan Batu Kitang Police raided the premises around 4pm on April 10.
Both were convicted under Section 5(1)(b) of the Entertainment Ordinance 2000, punishable under Section 5(2) of the same ordinance which carries a maximum RM20,000 fine and not more than five years’ jailor both.
In an unrelated case, a 24-year-old man was slapped with a total of RM900 fine after he pleaded guilty to two assault charges.
Muhammad Zaidi Adruce Abdullah, 24, appeared before Magistrate Portia Tham Ong Leng who convicted him under Sections 323 and 324 of the Penal Code.
For the first charge, he admitted to have caused hurt to another man with a metal club around 10.30am on May 26 in front of a college in Jalan Batu Lintang. He also slapped the same man at the same day and time.
The magistrate fined him RM600 in default three weeks’ jail for the first offence and RM300 in default two weeks’ jail for the second offence.