Former supervisor gets jail, fined RM20,000 for bribery

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KUALA LUMPUR: A former landfill site supervisor was sentenced to a month’s jail and fined RM20,000 or 20 months jail in default, by the Sessions Court here yesterday for offering a bribe to a Solid Waste And Public Cleansing Management Corporation deputy-director (Management) last year. Judge Azura Alwi handed down the sentence on N Thinesh Rao, 28, after he pleaded guilty to the charge.

The court ordered the accused to serve the jail sentence from today. N.Thinesh was charged with offering RM4,000 bribe to Mohd Zaki Harry Susanto @ Mohd Zaki Mohamad as an inducement to refrain from seizing four lorries for having committed an offence under Section 71 (1) of the Solid Waste and Public Cleaning Management Act 2007 (672).

The offence was committed at Jalan 4/155, Bukit OUG, here at 10.30am on Sept 19, 2017 under Section 17 (b) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 (MACC) and punishable under Section 24 of the same Act.

The section provides for a maximum jail term of 20 years and a fine of not less than five times the amount of bribe or RM10,000 or whichever is higher.

MACC deputy public prosecutor Nor Diana binti Nor Azwa urged the court to impose a deterrent sentence as a lesson to the accused and as a reminder to the public.

“Corruption is a serious offence and it can result in far reaching consequences,” she said.

In mitigation, the accused who was represented by counsel K Jaikumaran, pleaded for a lenient sentence as he was supporting his parents. — Bernama