KOTA KINABALU: Seorang lelaki tempatan berumur 34 tahun yang didakwa memiliki 63.4 gram kanabis pada Rabu dibebaskan tanpa perlu membela diri.
Hakim Mahkamah Sesyen Ainul Shahrin Mohamad melepaskan dan membebaskan Elton George Jr Gaban selepas mendapati pendakwaan gagal membuktikan kes prima facie ke atasnya.
KOTA KINABALU: A 34 years old local Dusun man escaped life imprisonment after the Sessions Court acquitted and discharged him of drugs possession.
Sessions Court Judge Ainul Shahrin Mohamad made the decision on Elton George Junior Gaban after finding that the prosecution had failed to prove a prima facie case against him under section 39A(2) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.
KOTA KINABALU: A 21-year-old cashier was discharged from a cheating charge over an online purchase of a laptop. Magistrate Jessica Ombou Kakayun made the order on Hasimah Jideh when the case was heard in her chamber.
According to Hasimah’s counsel, Azhier Farhan Arisin, the victim has retracted her report after realising it was just a misunderstanding.
KOTA KINABALU: Two men were jointly charged with trafficking in 5,008gm of syabu. However no plea was taken from Andy Lim Shau Seng, 31 and Yei Yung Chin, 35 who were brought before Magistrate Stephanie Sherron Abbie. They allegedly trafficked the drugs in front of Kedai Yuen, Jalan Gaya at about 4.15pm on Aug 29 recently. The offence framed under Section 39B (1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, provides for the mandatory death penalty.
KOTA KINABALU - Dua pegawai bank mengaku tidak bersalah di Mahkamah Sesyen di sini atas tuduhan menerima rasuah RM7,000 daripada seorang individu, awal September lepas. Muhammad Safwan Isnen, 27, dan Azzry Eyzzamshah Mohamad Arifin, 27, dituduh secara bersama menerima wang suapan berkenaan daripada Afizi Ahmad, di restoran Starbucks Coffee, berbelahan pintu utama One Borneo Hypermall pada 10.13 malam, 6 September.
A clothing salesman who showed a pornpgraphic video to two children was fined RM2,500 in default three months' jail by the magistrate's court here, Tuesday.
Magistrate Zuhair Rosli imposed the fine on David Ng Qi Long, 22, after he pleaded guilty to showing the video on a mobile phone to his neighbour's children, a girl aged 10, and a boy aged 11, with the intention of insulting their modesty.
KOTA KINABALU - Suruhanjaya pencegahah Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) telah menahan tujuh pegawai dan seorang bekas pegawai sebuah bank kerana disyaki memalsukan dokumen pinjaman bank. Pengarah SPRM Sabah, Datuk Shaharom Nizam Abdul Manap tiga suspek lelaki berusia antara 25 dan 27 tahun ditahan antara jam 10.35 malam dan 10.47 malam, di Starbucks, 1Borneo Hypermall di sini, Selasa lepas.
KOTA KINABALU: Graftbusters have swooped in to arrest seven Bank Rakyat officers who demanded kickbacks and used falsified documents to enable a civil servant to get a loan from the financial institution. Sabah Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Datuk Shaharom Nizam Abd Manap said in a statement on Thursday that the seven officers were arrested together with a self employed man on Sept 6 and 7.
