by Theleaders-Online | January 13, 2020 8:49 am
SEREMBAN: A single father was fined a total of RM22,500 by the two Magistrate’s Courts here today on eight counts of dishonestly concealing RMN16,000 that did not belong to him 11 years ago.
In the court before Magistrate V Vanita, meted out a fine totalling RM13,500 on businessman, Rezwat Shahril Zainal Ariffin, 42, who pleaded guilty to five of the charges.
Vanita fined him between RM1,100 and RM5,000 on each count.
For the five charges, Rezwat Shahril was charged with dishonestly concealing RM10,500 which did not belong to him between June 17, 2009 and July 1, 2009 .
The money was handed to him by one Ibrahim Abd Ghani, 51, at three locations, namely at house in Taman Sri Pulai 3 in Seremban, a food shop in Taman Sri Pulai 3 and at Rahang Maybank branch in Seremban.
The charges were framed under Section 424 of the Penal Code, which provides an imprisonment for up to five years or fine, or both, upon conviction.
Rezwat Shahril pleaded guilty to three similar charges before Magistrate Mahyun Yusof, who fined him a total of RM9,000 for all the offences.
On all three counts, he was charged with dishonestly concealing RM5,500, which also belonged to Ibrahim at the Maybank branch in Rahang and Senawang here, on June 22 and 23, 2009.
Mahyun fined him between RM2,000 and RM3,500 on each count.
In mitigation, Rezwat Shahril, represented by lawyers R Kanapathy and Noor Azizi Abdull Aziz, both from the National Legal Aid Faoundation, said it was his first offence and that he had four school-going children to take care of.
The prosecution was conducted by deputy public prosecutors Jiwan Kaur Malkith Singh and Sharifah Nur Amirah Syed Ahmad Yunus.
Bernama
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