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Tan Sri Mohd Khalid Ismail (barisan depan enam kanan) bersama Datuk Seri Dr Syed Hussian Aljunid (lima kanan), Encik Jasbant Singh (empat kanan) bersama pegawai dan kakitangan Media Prima pada program di Bukit Aman. Turut hadir Datuk Farrah Naz Abdul Karim. Gambar NSTP oleh ASWADI ALIAS Akhbar Berita Harian semalam melaporkan Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) mencadangkan kerajaan meminda undang-undang lapuk serta mengenakan hukuman yang jauh lebih berat, termasuk hukuman sebat terhadap penjenayah penipuan dalam talian (scammer). Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Mohd Khalid Ismail, berkata hukuman berunsur pencegahan amat kritikal bagi membendung jenayah siber yang kian berleluasa dan meragut ketenteraman masyarakat. Beliau berkata, hukuman yang dijatuhkan oleh pihak kehakiman ketika ini dilihat terlalu minimum sehingga gagal menimbulkan rasa gentar dalam kalangan dalang serta ahli sindiket penipuan. "Tangkapan dibuat secara berterusan di seluruh negara, namun hukuman yang dikenakan begitu...

Myanmar refugees holding valid United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cards remain subject to the Immigration Act 1959/63. As quoted by FMT , Malaysian news agency Bernama reported that the Immigration Director-General Zakaria Shaaban said UNHCR cardholders could be treated as undocumented migrants if they committed certain immigration offences, including working without a valid pass or permit. “Employers who employ UNHCR card-holding refugees without valid authorisation may also be subject to legal action,” he said in a statement today. Zakaria said the exemptions given to these refugees only covered two offences under the Immigration Act — not possessing valid travel documents or passes, and overstaying. Zakaria also denied that the immigration department had ever stated that Myanmar refugees holding UNHCR cards were not undocumented migrants. This followed media reports claiming that UNHCR cardholders could not be subjected to immigration action and were outside the ...

Media reported a former real estate consultant was today ordered to serve 10 years in jail and fined nearly RM228 million after the Court of Appeal allowed the prosecution’s final appeal to overturn his acquittal on corruption and money laundering charges. News portal FMT said a three-member bench, comprising Justices Zaini Mazlan, Wong Kian Kheong and Evrol Mariette Peters, found the prosecution had proved its case through circumstantial evidence when viewed cumulatively. Zaini, who delivered the broad grounds of judgment, said Amir Shariffuddin Abd Raub’s contention that the money he received was consultancy fees was not supported by any documentary evidence. He also said Amir’s relationship with former Johor executive councillor Latif Bandi was relevant in establishing his role as an influence peddler. Deputy public prosecutor Farah Ezlin Yusop Khan later confirmed the appeal’s outcome with the news portal. The bench sat in Johor Bahru. The bench subsequently issued a committal ord...