00:00Two former bank officers pleaded guilty to failing to report bribery involving the preparation of housing loan documents at the Shah Alam Sessions Court on Friday.
00:12Judge Datuk Mohamed Nasir Nordin fined Mohamed Haikal Jamaluddin, 25,000 ringgit, and Amira Nabila Mohamed Jamaluddin, 6,000 ringgit.
00:21The court also ordered Haikal to serve 30 months in jail and Amira six months should they fail to pay the fines.
00:30According to the five alternative charges, Haikal received a total of 15,920 ringgit, deposited into his bank account by an individual acting on behalf of a law firm,
00:42as a reward for recommending the firm to prepare five housing loan agreements worth about 2.46 million ringgit.
00:49The offences were committed at two branches of the same bank in Petaling Jaya between April 14, 2021 and January 13, 2022.
01:00Amira was accused of receiving 3,201 ringgit into her bank account on November 23, 2021 as payment for recommending another law firm to handle two housing loan financing agreements worth a total of 924,387 ringgit at a bank branch in Shah Alam.
01:22Both were found to have violated Subsection A, Paragraph A of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, MACC, Act 2009, by failing to report the receipt of bribe money to the MACC or the police.
01:37They were charged under Section 25, subsection 1 of the same act and punishable under Section 25, subsection 2, which carries a fine of up to 100,000 ringgit, imprisonment of up to 10 years or both.
01:51Meanwhile, another bank officer, Ko Wei-yong, claimed trial to two charges, including an alternative charge, of accepting a 1,800 ringgit bribe deposited into his wife's bank account from a law firm.
02:06The money was allegedly a reward for recommending the firm to prepare financing documents worth 300,000 ringgit.
02:13Ko allegedly committed the offences at a bank branch in Kelana Jaya on May 13, 2020.
02:19The court granted him 8,000 ringgit bail, with mentions set for Dec. 16.
02:26The three are among 49 individuals arrested under the MACC's OpTiger, which targets corruption within the banking sector.
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