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SHAH ALAM: The High Court today issued a seven-day remand order against the founder of Sugarbook, a sugar daddy dating platform, a day after an earlier application was rejected.
The order was issued by judge Noorin Badaruddin following a review application by Selangor prosecution director Muhamad Iskandar Ahmad after his application was rejected by the High Court deputy registrar yesterday.
Noorin issued the order, effective yesterday, after the 34-year-old suspect agreed to be held in remand to facilitate investigation under Section 505 (b) of the Penal Code and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.
Lawyers Foong Cheng Leong, T Shashi Devan and Low Li Qun represented the suspect, while Muhamad Iskandar and DPP Shukor Abu Bakar prosecuted.
Earlier, Shashi Devan submitted that their client had no objection to the review application and would extend his cooperation to complete the investigation.
“Our client also thinks it is a good platform for him to provide the information needed so that the investigation can be carried out quickly and completely,” he said.
He also requested that the suspect not be handcuffed from the back as he suffered a shoulder injury.
Yesterday, deputy registrar Noorasyikin Sahat dismissed the application to remand the suspect after he promised to give his full cooperation to facilitate police investigation in the case.
The suspect, from Minden in Gelugor, Penang, was arrested two days ago at a condominium in Kuala Lumpur.
It is learnt that police initiated investigations into the dating website after it named 10 public and private universities as having the most students who chose to become “sugar babies” and sought “sugar daddies” to finance their lifestyles.
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