Dockyard company fined for failing to report workplace death
SIBU: The Magistrates’ Court on Monday (Nov 8) fined a dockyard company RM3,000 for failing to submit a death report incident of its employee to the Department of Occupational Safety and Health () within the prescribed period. The fine was imposed by Magistrate Mohd Syukri Mokhtar who presided over the case. According to the charge […]
Fined and jailed for taking drugs
KUCHING: A 43 -year-old man was fined RM2,700 and jailed four months by the Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday (Nov 3). The man was sentenced by the court for taking amphetamine and methamphetamine last August. Rajah Chung Kong Fatt, 43, pleaded guilty after the charge was read by an interpreter before Magistrate Syarifah Fatimah Azura Wan […]
Fined RM10,000 each for illegal online gambling
KUCHING: Two friends were each fined RM10,000 in default three months’ jail by the Magistrates’ Court here for conducting illegal online gambling activities last August. Magistrate Syarifah Fatimah Azura Wan Ali sentenced Florensi Guchien, 29, and Lenicker Libin, 21, after the latter pleaded guilty to the charge today (Nov 3). Both were accused of operating […]
Worker fined RM200,000 for possessing contraband goods
SIBU: The Magistrates’ Court today fined a mini mart employee RM200,000 in default of six months’ jail for possessing contraband goods. Magistrate Mohd Syukri Mokhtar also ordered the accused to pay the leviable duty amounting to RM793.20 within two weeks, failing which he had to serve two weeks in prison. However Justino Lebun, 44, from […]
Man fails to pay RM100k fine for contraband possession
SIBU: The Magistrates’ Court has fined a 44-year-old man RM100,000 in default of five months’ imprisonment for contravening the Customs Act 1967. Magistrate Mohd Syukri Mokhtar also ordered the accused to pay RM392 in default of two days’ imprisonment, to the director-general of Customs on Thursday (Oct 21). Justino Lebun from Kanowit was unrepresented and […]
Youth fined RM3,000 for illegal online gambling
SIBU: The Magistrates’ court here today (Oct 15) fined a youth RM3,000, in default four months’ jail, after he pleaded guilty to being involved in illegal online gambling. Magistrate Mohd Syukri Mokhtar meted out the sentence on Yii Hee Hua, 24 for committing the offence under Section 4(1)(c) of the Common Gaming Houses Act 1953, […]
Man fined for operating online gambling business without license
MIRI: A 34-year-old local man from Pujut Padang Kerbau here on Tuesday (Oct 5) was fined RM1,000 by the Magistrate Court for operating an online gambling business without a valid license. Magistrate Leona Dominic Mojiliu convicted Muhammad Zulhilmi Zainal and ordered him to pay the fine under Section 3(1) of the Businesses, Professions and Trade […]
In Norway, peeing toward Russia will get you fined
OSLO, Norway: A new sign posted at Norway’s river border with Russia reminds tourists feeling nature’s call that it’s against the law to pee in the direction of Russia — on pain of a hefty fine. Written in English in black block letters, the sign posted on the banks of the Jakobselva river that separates […]
Six fined RM12,000 for wildlife offences
SIBU: Six Indonesian men were fined a total of RM12,000 for the possession of protected wildlife and wild birds, including a crocodile and White-rumped Shama also locally known as “Burung Murai Batu”. Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC), in a statement yesterday (July 28), said the six accused pleaded guilty to the charges before the court and […]
Man fined RM1,000 for damaging neighbour’s motorcycle
KUCHING: A construction worker, accused of stealing a gas cylinder and then lost his temper and damaged his neighbour’s motorcycle, was fined RM1,000 in default a month’s jail today (July 13). Magistrate Zubaidah Sharkawi meted out the sentence on Braco Lagan after he pleaded guilty under Section 427 of the Penal Code. Braco, 22, currently […]