KUALA TERENGGANU – The Sessions Court today sentenced a police sergeant to 12 months jail and a RM20,000 fine after he pleaded guilty to two bribery charges related to fabricating a person’s urine test in 2013.
Mohd Daud Nawi, 53, who was attached to the Dungun police anti-narcotics division, had committed the offences on two separate occasions in January 2013.
In the first case, he was charged on April 17, 2013 with soliciting RM1,000 from one Muhammad Ameer Izzuddin Samad, 24, as inducement for him to alter the urine test result of the latter, who is believed to have tested positive for drugs.
The incident occured in a house at Taman Mulia in Bandar Al-Muktafi Billah Shah in Dungun about 8pm on Jan 12, 2013.
He was charged under Section 16(a)(B) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Act 2009 which is punishable under Section 24 of the same act.
In the second case, he was charged on April 17, 2013 with receiving RM1,000 from the same person as an inducement for him to alter the urine test result of the latter, who is believed to have tested positive for drugs.
The incident occured in front of a Maybank branch at Jalan Baru Pak Sabah in Dungun about 6pm on January 14, 2013.
He was charged under Section 17(a) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Act 2009 which is punishable under Section 24 of the same act.
For each of the charges, the maximum penalty is not more than 20 years jail and a fine not less than five times the amount of the bribe, or RM10,000, whichever is higher.
Judge Asmadi Hussin sentenced Mohd Nawi to six months jail and RM10,000 fine, in default of two weeks’ imprisonment, for each of the charges. He also ordered him to serve the jail term concurrently from yesterday.
Deputy public prosecutor Farah Yasmin Salleh appeared for the prosecution while Mohd Nawi was represented by Hasif Kumar.-nst
