Former SME Corp official fined RM16,000 for business dealings, bribery

 

Halimah Musa Brahim (centre) was charged at the Kuala Terengganu sessions court with engaging in business through NDZ Creative Resources and granting office-cleaning contracts for the Terengganu office of SME Corp Malaysia to the company. (Bernama pic)

PETALING JAYA: 

A former assistant director at the Terengganu office of SME Corp Malaysia was fined RM16,000 by the Kuala Terengganu sessions court today after pleading guilty to two alternative charges of engaging in business and receiving bribes totalling RM7,700.

Judge Azhar Othman also ordered Halimah Musa Brahim, 47, to serve six months in prison if she failed to settle the fine, reported Bernama.

Halimah was charged with engaging in business through NDZ Creative Resources and granting office-cleaning contracts for the Terengganu office of SME Corp to the company.

The offences were committed between Oct 1 and Dec 1, 2015, and between Jan 12 and Nov 1, 2016, at the Terengganu office.

The court imposed a fine of RM8,000 for each charge. Halimah settled the fine.

“May this sentence serve as a lesson to you and others in the future,” said Azhar in his judgment.

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission deputy public prosecutor Mariah Omar appeared for the prosecution while lawyer Fadhly Yaacob represented Halimah. - FMT