LIMBANG: Two timber-logging company managers and two part-time contractors pleaded guilty to corruption charges at the Sessions Court here today for offering bribe to enforcement officers in four separate cases last month.
Part-time timber contractor Pau Yu Tek, 54, was sentenced with the highest fine among the four of the accused after he pleaded guilty to committing the offence.
Judge Nixon Kennedy Kembong slapped the accused with RM50,000 fine and a day imprisonment for corruptly offering RM10,000 to Assistant Superintendent Pabilah Abdullah, who is attached with the Batu Kawa General Operation Force surveillance division.
According to the charge, Pau had committed the offence in front of a bank in Lawas Town, Lawas near here at 3.30pm on Sept 10.
The other part-time timber contractor, Ting Chuong Mew, 72, was slapped with RM10,000 fine and a day’s jail after he pleaded guilty to offering bribe to the same officer at Kampung Tabahan Limbang here at 6.20pm on Sept 9.
The two timber-logging company managers Ngu Kok Tung and Tang Chung Yieng were also slapped with RM10,000 fine and sentenced to a day’s jail each in the same court room.
Ngu, 37, pleaded guilty to offering RM300 bribe to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) senior assistant enforcement officer Sendry Anak Ugi at a hotel in Lawas near here at 10.45am on Sept 1.
Tang, 28, was accused of offering RM1,000 bribe to Sendry in front of a pharmacy in Jalan Lorong Punang 2, Lawas near here at 3.15pm the same day.
All the accused were charged under Section 17(b) of the MACC Act 2009.
The prosecution for the case was conducted by MACC prosecuting officer Kathrine Nais.