Doktor
Pakar Songlap RM700,000.00
SHAH
ALAM: An accused in the murder of deputy public prosecutor Anthony Kevin Morais
was sentenced to five years in prison and RM7 million fine or another four
years behind bars by the Sessions Court here today for two charges of
corruption involving RM700,000.
Tuanku
Mizan Military Hospital pathologist Dr R Kunaseegaran was found guilty by judge
Rozilah Salleh of soliciting RM700,000 from Abdul Razar Abdullah as an
inducement to recommend the latter’s company RAZ Medical Supplies Sdn Bhd as a
supplier for medicines and disposable medical instruments for the hospital.
He
committed the offence through a text messaging service or SMS on his mobile
phone at 11.58am on Aug 29, 2013.
On
the second charge, he was found guilty of agreeing to accept RM700,000 from
Razar for the same purpose, in front of Empire Gallery Subang Jaya near here at
5.15 pm on Sept 3, 2013.
The judge
in her ruling said the defence which called two witnesses, failed to raise any
reasonable doubt in the prosecution’s case.
Earlier
in mitigation, Geethan Ram Vincent who represented Kunaseegaran, 55, said his
client was married with two children and had been in civil service for 27
years.
However,
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission deputy public prosecutor Mohammed Heikal
Ismail urged the court to impose an appropriate sentence “as a lesson to the
accused and considering that corruption is the country’s number one enemy”.
Kunaseegaran
is currently being detained at Sungai Buloh Prison near here pending disposal
of the murder trial in which he stands accused of abetting five men in killing
Morais, 55, whose body was found in a drum filled with concrete at Persiaran
Subang Mewah, Subang Jaya, on Sept 16, 2015.
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