ALOR STAR: A Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) employee was fined RM25,000 after he was found guilty of five corruption charges involving RM2,300 two years ago.
Sessions Court judge N. Priscilla Hemamalini imposed a RM5,000 fine for each charge on Muhamad Abdul Hadi Abdullah, 35, who is attached to the Kedah/Perlis MMEA office.
Yesterday, Hadi pleaded guilty to five counts of receiving a total of RM2,300 from Lim Kian Chong, the owner of Syarikat LGH Maju Trading.
The accused had received the money from Lim in five separate transactions into a Langkawi RHB Bank branch account belonging to Hasmawati Hassan Basari.
The money was transferred to the account between January and October 2022.
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission prosecution officers Abd Muntaqim Abdul Aziz and Mohd Syahzada Azad Sanusi prosecuted the case, while the accused was not represented.
Hadi paid the fine.