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New Straits Times
5 days ago
- Politics
- New Straits Times
Bangladeshi loses bid to reclaim RM723k seized in Immigration raid
SHAH ALAM: The High Court has dismissed a criminal revision application filed by a Bangladeshi national challenging a Sessions Court's decision to forfeit RM723,000 in cash seized during an Immigration raid earlier this year. Judicial commissioner Dr Hazlina Hussain ruled that there was no procedural error by the Sessions Court judge to justify intervention by the higher court. According to the court document, Salman Ahmad Chowdhury as applicant had pleaded guilty to breaching the conditions of his temporary employment visit pass by working at an unauthorised premises in Ampang. Salman was fined RM400 and ordered to be deported. He did not appeal the order before his deportation. During the raid on Jan 17, enforcement officers from the Immigration Department found Salman in possession of multiple foreign passports and large sums of money kept in a safe deposit box. Following Salman's guilty plea, the lower court also ordered the forfeiture of RM723,000 to the government. His former employer, Agensi Pekerjaan Insight Alliance Sdn Bhd (the agent), was also fined RM10,000 for hiring an undocumented migrant and did not appeal the conviction. However, on May 6, Salman and the agent applied to High Court to exercise its revisionary power to revise the learned lower court's decision on an order to forfeit the monies. Lawyers Mohd Haziq Razali and Nur Khairunnisa Sabirah Abdul Manan submitted that was no nexus between the cash and the immigration offence. However, the judge disagreed. "To the court, if the counsel's argument had any merit, it was quite perplexing as to who now owns the cash if the forfeiture order by the Sessions Court was wrong. "There is indeed a nexus between Salman and the disputed money, based on the police report. "Furthermore, Salman admitted to all the exhibits tendered before the trial judge. "By denying the forfeiture order, as counsel did, they were also questioning the guilty plea Salman had made before the lower court, which the court thought devoid of merit," she said in her grounds of judgment. Salman and the agent filed an appeal to the Court of Appeal.
Free Malaysia Today
20-05-2025
- Free Malaysia Today
5 freed of youth's murder on Carey Island beach
Judicial Commissioner Hazlina Hussain said in the Shah Alam High Court that the prosecution had failed to identify or call material witnesses listed in the investigation papers. SHAH ALAM : Five men walked free today after the High Court ruled that the prosecution had failed to prove they had murdered an 18-year-old youth five years ago. Judicial Commissioner Hazlina Hussain said the prosecution's case, which was primarily based on circumstantial evidence, was marred by significant shortcomings. She said there was a failure to identify or call material witnesses listed in the investigation papers, including individuals suspected to be involved in the crime. 'The credibility of the key prosecution witness, the deceased's father, was also seriously in doubt,' she said. Hazlina said the investigation had failed to thoroughly examine all relevant events and parties, rendering the case incomplete and unreliable. 'The prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case against the accused. Accordingly, they are acquitted without being called to enter their defence,' she said in her oral ruling this evening. M Thirumugan, 36, V Vasanthan, 34, G Thurairaju, 34, M Ragu Velan, 54, and M Logeswaran, 31, were jointly charged with the murder of Viknesh Chandra Segar on the Carey Island beach in the Ulu Langat district of Selangor, between 9.15pm on March 15, 2020, and 9.15pm the following day. Deputy public prosecutor Tengku Intan Suraya Ismail prosecuted. Lawyers A Komathi, G Maniggandan and KC Kishorthan represented Thirumugan; Jaspal Singh Mann appeared for Vasanthan; and Ryshinah Ramamoothi represented Thurairaju. Joshua T Sambanthan and Angeline Nga acted for Ragu Velan, while T Selvadorai represented Logeswaran.
