Kota Kinabalu: An unemployed man, who faces two counts of trafficking drugs, was among three people who claimed trial at the High Court, here, Friday.
Liew Choon Ang, 29, Sim Sun Chhiam, 38, Faiz Abu Imbin, 25, who appeared before Judicial Commissioner Amelati Parnell pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Unemployed Liew and Sim, both from Kelantan were jointly charged with trafficking 3,510.5 gm of syabu at 12.50am on July 4, 2020 in the OIC room at the passenger inspection branch operations office of the Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA) here.
Liew was also accused of trafficking another 4, 243.9 gm of syabu at 12.30am on the same day at the scanner machine inspection counter, domestic arrival hall (two), KKIA.
Amelati set Nov 15-18 this year for trial of both cases and also fixed Sept 15 for pre-trial case management (PTCM) of each case.
Faiz was accused of trafficking 50.97gm of syabu at 1.35pm on June 27, 2020, at Jalan Tuaran Bypass in Manggatal.
The court set Nov 8-9, for trial and fixed Sept 15 for PTCM.
Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Mohd Khairuddin Idris stood in for DPP Shafiq Mahadi of the Customs Department in prosecuting the cases against Liew and Sim.
Liew was represented by counsel Ram Singh and Kimberly Ye on a pro bono basis while Sim was represented by counsel PJ Perira.
DPP Syarifuddin Abdul Rasa prosecuted in Faiz’s case, while Faiz was unrepresented.
The three were charged under Section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act, which carries the death sentence or imprisonment for life and whipping not less than 15 strokes if not sentenced to death, upon conviction.
They were all ordered to be further remanded as the charge framed against them has no provision for bail.
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