Three Immigration officers, restauranteur charged with bribery in Johor

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Three grade KP2 immigration officers and a restaurant owner were charged at the Johor Baru Sessions Court on Wednesday (Jan 21) for receiving bribes related to counter-setting issues between two and three years ago.    Read more at https://tinyurl.com/yc6s4kxs  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Three immigration officers and a restaurant owner were charged at the Johor Bahru Sessions Court

00:07on Wednesday with corruption related to counter-setting in Pasir Gudang and Muar

00:12from 2023 to February last year. Mohamed Azhar Jamal, Rizal Mohamed Yasin,

00:20Hairizam Mohamed and restaurant owner Hazlan Hazila pleaded not guilty after the charges

00:25were read out separately before Judge Datuk Ahmad Kamal Arifin Ismail. Mohamed Azhar, an immigration

00:32officer, was charged with 14 counts of agreeing to accept bribes totaling RM28,600 via online bank

00:41transfers from a woman. He allegedly committed the act as a civil servant responsible for checking

00:47and ensuring that foreign nationals' travel documents for entering and leaving Malaysia

00:52were valid. Rizal faces two charges of accepting bribes totaling RM1,700 from a male agent as an

01:01immigration officer at the Pasir Gudang Terminal C entry and exit gate jetty for not conducting

01:08thorough inspections of Indonesian citizens' travel documents. Hairizam, who works at the Pasir Gudang

01:15Ferry Terminal Operation Control Division, is accused of accepting a bribe totaling RM100 from a man

01:21to facilitate the entry of Indonesian travellers into Malaysia. The fourth accused, Hazlan, is charged

01:28with accepting a bribe of RM1,200 from a man as an inducement to act as a middleman, facilitating the

01:36entry and exit of Indonesian travellers at a restaurant in Muach on November 11, 2024. The court set bail at

01:45RM10,000 for Mohammed Azhar while Rizal, Hairizam and Haslan were granted bail of RM8,000 with additional

01:54conditions to surrender their passports to the court and report to the nearby MACC headquarters once a month.

02:01The court set February 24th and 25th for mention of their cases.

02:15The court set February 24th and 25th for mention of the

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