00:00A 32-year-old Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency officer was slapped with six charges
00:10at the Johor Bahru Sessions Court for accepting bribes amounting to 10,700 ringgit two years
00:17ago.
00:18Muhammad Azmin Zulkepli pleaded not guilty after the charges were read to him before
00:22Judge Datuk Ahmad Kamal Arifin Ismail on Monday.
00:26According to the charge sheet, the accused, who holds the rank of senior maritime officer
00:31at the agency's KEDA and Perlis headquarters, allegedly accepted valuable items in the form
00:37of cash ranging from 1,200 ringgit to 2,300 ringgit.
00:42The money was received from the owner of a marine supply company via transfers from the
00:47Maybank account of a middleman.
00:49The accused knew that the company's owner had dealings related to his official duties.
00:54All the offences were allegedly committed at a bank in Segamat between February and
00:58October 2022.
01:01The charges were brought under Section 165 of the Penal Code, which provides a sentence
01:05of up to two years' imprisonment, a fine or both, upon conviction.
01:10During the proceeding, the prosecution requested bail of 20,000 ringgit with a local surety,
01:16along with additional conditions including for the accused to surrender his passport
01:21to the court.
01:22However, lawyer Mohamed Noraza Majid, who represented the accused, appealed for the
01:28lowest possible bail.
01:29He informed the court that his client still serves as a senior officer in Sandakan with
01:35a monthly salary of 1,700 ringgit.
01:38He also supports his unemployed wife, a two-month-old child, his 65-year-old parents and an 85-year-old
01:46grandmother.
01:47The court then set bail at 7,000 ringgit and fixed February 7 for the case's next mention
01:53and submission of documents.
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