[Ex-Immigration DG jailed 6-years, fined for corruption] Wednesday, 30 October 2013 KUALA LUMPUR - Former Immigration director-general Datuk Wahid Md Don was jailed six years and fined RM300,000 by the Sessions Court today of corruption involving RM60,000. Judge Rosbiahanin Arifin ruled that the defence failed to raise reasonable doubt in the prosecutions case. She ordered the jail term to run from today and that he serve 12 months jail if he fails to pay the fine. On Aug 19, 2008, Wahid, 59, was charged with accepting RM60,000 from businessman Datuk Low Chang Hian as partial payment for expediting the visa approvals for 4,337 Bangladeshis to enter the country. He was alleged to have committed the offence at Jalan Lembah Ledang, off jalan Duta here on July 10, 2008. On Oct 15, 2010, the Sessions Court acquitted Wahid at the end of the prosecutions case. The prosecution appealed against the decision to the High Court, which upheld it on May 30, 2012. However, the Court of Appeal allowed the prosecutions appeal and ordered the accused to enter his defence on April 2 this year. The prosecution called 40 witnesses while the defence called one witness. NST Full article: malaysia-chronicle/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=181081:ex-immigration-dg-jailed-6-years-fined-for-corruption&Itemid=2#ixzz2jHb3pXcu Follow us: @MsiaChronicle on Twitter
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:34:55 +0000