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Ma Chao
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Thursday October 28, 2010
Trader fined RM10,000 for bribing traffic cop
JOHOR BARU: A businessman was sentenced to a day’s jail and ordered to pay a RM10,000 fine by a Sessions Court here after he pleaded guilty to bribing a policeman. Lim Sin Foo, 35, was accused of committing the offence after he was stopped by police for speeding near KM18.3 of the Second Link Highway at around 5.30pm on May 30.
The accused offered traffic policeman Constable Balvinder Singh a bribe of RM50 as an inducement to let him off without being issued a summons. Lim was charged under Section 17(b) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act 2009, which carries a maximum of 20 years’ jail or a fine of up to five times the value of the bribe or RM10,000 (whichever is higher) or both.
Sessions Court Judge Habibah Mohamed Yusof sentenced Lim to one day’s imprisonment and ordered him to pay a RM10,000 fine, in default five months’ jail. Lim paid the fine. Meanwhile, in an unrelated case, an unemployed Vietnamese woman was sentenced to three months’ jail by a magistrate’s court after she pleaded guilty to attempted theft.
