Traffic police inspector remanded for five days to assist corruption probe

KUCHING: A police inspector was remanded for five days while a businessman was fined RM10,000 and jailed for one day by the Special Corruption Court here for an offence relating to bribery.
The 35-year-old police personnel from the Kuching District Traffic Police Headquarters was detained at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) headquarters here last night on a charge of demanding a bribe of RM4,500 from a traffic offender.
The remand order beginning today was issued by Judge Nixon Kennedy Kumbong who allowed the application by the MACC to investigate the case under Section 17(a) of the MACC Act 2009 which can be convicted under Section 24 of the same Act, which carries a prison term of up to 20 years or a fine not exceeding five times the value of the bribe.
At the same court, businessman Ngu Ho Woon was fined RM10,000 or two months in jail and a day's imprisonment for allegedly attempting to bribe a government agent RM2,000 at a retail shop at Jalan Penrissen, here on Dec 15, last year.
The 58-year-old businessman pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempting to give a bribe so that the authorities would not take action against an Indonesian foreign worker who was suspected of working in the country without a permit.
The businessman, who was not represented by a counsel, was charged under Section 17(b) of the MACC Act 2009 which provides for a jail sentence of not more than 20 years and a fine of five times the value of the bribe or RM10,000, whichever is higher. — Bernama