00:00 "Get out, get out!"
00:12 Muar Empi, Syed Sadiq Abdul Rahman, has been sentenced to seven years jail,
00:17 two strokes of the cane, and a fine of 10 million ringgit for charges of abetting criminal breach of trust,
00:22 misappropriation of funds, and money laundering.
00:25 High Court Judge Justice Azhar Abdul Hamid on Thursday said that the defense failed to raise
00:31 any reasonable doubt on all four charges he was facing.
00:35 On March 14, the defense closed its case after 29 prosecution witnesses testified in the trial,
00:41 which started on June 21, 2022.
00:44 On October 28 last year, the High Court ordered Syed Sadiq to enter his defense
00:49 after the prosecution successfully established a prima fatihe case against him.
00:55 The former youth and sports minister was charged with abetting former Armada assistant treasurer
01:00 Rafiq Hakim Razali to commit a criminal breach of trust by misappropriating the funds.
01:06 On the second charge, he is accused of misappropriating 120,000 ringgit from Armada Bumi,
01:13 Bersatu Enterprises' Maybank Islamic Berhad account, by making Rafiq dispose of the money.
01:19 He is also facing two counts of money laundering via transactions of 50,000 ringgit each,
01:25 believed to be proceeds from unlawful activities, from his Maybank Islamic Berhad account
01:30 into his Amana Saham Bumi Putra account in a bank in Johor Bahru.
01:35 Syed Sadiq was charged in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court for the CBT and misappropriation
01:40 of assets charges, while the other two money laundering charges were at the Johor Bahru Sessions Court.
01:46 The Johor Bahru Sessions Court then allowed the prosecution's request to transfer the case
01:51 in order for all four charges to be jointly tried at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court.
01:57 On November 25, 2021, Syed Sadiq was allowed to transfer the case from the Sessions Court
02:03 to the High Court. The CBT charge carries a 10-year jail sentence,
02:07 while misappropriation of funds, five years and money laundering, 15 years.
02:12 He is also liable to a fine of five times the value of proceeds from the unlawful activity.
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