KUALA LUMPUR: A sundry shop was today fined RM90,000 by the Sessions Court for illegal storage of controlled items.
Bhuiyan Sdn Bhd, which was represented by its director Md Billal Hossain Bhuiyan Md Sabil Bhuiyan pleaded guilty to storing 665kg of cooking oil, 620kg of sugar and 263kg of wheat flour at it's unlicensed premises at 8/10, Ground Floor, Jalan Yew off Jalan Pudu, near here at about 12.17pm on Oct 27, 2016.
Counsel Lo Mei Na, in mitigation told Judge Harmi Thamri Mohamad@Shaharudin that her client's retail licence had expired in 2015 and the new manager who was supposed to renew it, had overlooked it.
"My client also has the licence for storing of the controlled items. He has been in business for 16 years."
Deputy public prosecutor Zaileen Nadia Zubir from Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry said though the company has two licences, one for retail and the other for storing, the items were stored in a different premises.
"In this case the controlled items were stores at Jalan Yew off Jalan Pudu when the licensed address is at Bandar Tun Razak in Cheras."
Harmi also ordered the RM3,413 revenue earned from the sale of the cooking oil by the company, to be given to the government.