Malaysia Crime Watch

22 January 2008
Johor Baru

A 38-year-old Indonesian was sentenced yesterday to five years’ jail for burying his newborn baby alive.

Under Section 304b of the Penal Code, Ramlee Basa-ruddin was charged with committing unintentional homicide on the baby at 1323 JTM 13/2 Lorong Ahmad Yusof, Ulu Tiram, on 8 January 2008 at 5:35pm. He pleaded guilty to the charge.

It is alleged that at 4am that day, Ramlee’s 20-year-old local girlfriend had given birth to the baby. He then buried the baby alive in a hole behind the house that he and his girlfriend were staying in.

Ramlee was also sentenced to a year in jail for having no valid travel documents while in the country. Under Section 6(1)(c) of the Immigration Act 1963, he was also ordered to be punished with four strokes of the cane. He pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Both sentences are to run consecutively from yesterday.

New Straits Times – 5 years’ jail for burying own baby alive
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Tuesday/National/2138585/Article/index_html>

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22 January 2008
Klang

In Sessions Courts yesterday, five men from the police and Customs department were charged seperately with intention to accept bribes and demanding and accepting bribes under Sections 10(a), 10 (a) (bb) and 11(a) of the Anti-Corruption Act 1997.

Customs officer Shahrol Affandi Ibrahim, who was at the time with the Customs Department Preventions Division in Padang Besar, was charged with accepting RM10,000 from Mazlan Adam as inducement not to seize washing parts owned by Prosteel (M) Sdn Bhd for which the company did not pay import duties. Charged under Section 10(a)(b) of the Act, he is alleged to have accepted the bribe on 15 June 2007 at 6pm at Jalan Kebun, Klang.

Shahrol was also charged with accepting RM2,000 from Abdul Rashid Tengku Shahrani at 7:35pm on the same day at a stall in Kampung Seri Gambut, Klang, for the same reason.

The judge set bail at RM5,000 for each offence and fixed 22 and 23 September 2008 for trial.

Corporal Fadzil Bon and Lance Corporal Shahuri Mohamad Zain, who are with the Kuala Selangor district CID, were jointly charged with the intent to accept a bribe of RM2,000 from Thor Lay Chin to not take action against him for possessing a stolen mobile phone. They were alleged to have committed the offence on 16 September 2005 at 7pm at the A&K Telecommunication office in Taman Kem, Port Klang.

The judge set bail at RM2,500 each and fixed 5 March 2008 for trial.

Chief Inspector Abdul Aziz Harun with the Kuala Selangor district police CID division is charged with accepting RM1,000, also from Thor Lay Chin, to not take action against him for the same reason. Charged under Section 11(a) of the Act, he is alleged to have accepted the bribe on 19 September 2005 at 3:30pm at the Kuala Selangor magistrate’s court car park.

The judge set bail at RM3,000 and fixed 5 March 2008 for trial.

37-year-old Chief Inspector Ahmad Rambli was charged twice for accepting bribes from K. Thiagu to reduce the reported weight of heroine seized on the latter and to reduce the detention period for Thiagu’s brother, Vimaraj. Ahmad was an investigating officer from the Klang district police Anti-Narcotics Division.

Ahmad is alleged to have accepted RM5,000 at the Klang district police Anti-Narcotics Department on 20 February 2007 at 7pm. Then on the same day at 11:30pm at the Restoran Al-Bidayah along Jalan Sarawak, Taman Seri Andalas, Ahmad accepted another RM3,000 from Thiagu.

The judge set bail at RM6,000 with one surety for both offences and fixed 4 March 2008 for trial.

The Star Online – Five charged with graft
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/1/22/courts/20081783&sec=courts>

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22 January 2008
Petaling Jaya

400 General Operations Force (GOF) personnel from the Northern Brigade have been helping in the search for missing 5-year-old Sharlinie Mohd Nashar. Teams have been sent to the Petaling Jaya and Sentul areas yesterday at 5am yesterday.

Yesterday, a team of GOF personnel, police officers and a forensic unit checked the particulars of 79 immigrants living at a construction site kongsi in PJS 3. 33 of them, including three women and a toddlers, were brought to the district headquarters as they did not have valid travel documents.

Teams have been instructed to search all construction sites and temporary homes of foreign workers.

Police also said that the 16-year-old boy from Bagan Serai who was detained for sending false SMSes and extorting money from Sharlinie’s parents was released on police bail yesterday.

The Star Online – 400 GOF men join house-to-house search
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/1/22/nation/20081546&sec=nation>

New Straits Times – General Operations Force joins search
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Tuesday/National/2138534/Article/index_html>

MCW – Sharlinie Missing: Woman in White Van Tip-off
<URL:http://malaysiacrimewatch.lokety.com/sharlinie-missing-woman-in-white-van/>

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