Kota Kinabalu: Four unemployed men were separately charged at the Magistrate’s Court here Tuesday with trafficking drugs.
Kalaichelvan Silvaraju, 40, undocumented Muhd Yahya Abdullah, 19, Padillah Jamiry, 31, and Mohd Norhadrie Raduan, 24, were brought before Magistrates Lovely Natasha Charles and Stephanie Sherron Abbie.
Kalaichelvan was accused of trafficking 126gm of syabu at 5pm on June 19 at the car park of University Condo Apartment 2, Manggatal, while Yahya allegedly trafficked 102.31gm of ecstasy powder at 2.45am on June 27 in front of a hotel in Kg Air here.
Padillah was accused of trafficking 50.59gm of syabu at 2pm on June 19 in front of a car wash shop at Likas Plaza here while Norhadrie was alleged to have trafficked 50.73gm of syabu at 11.30am on June 27 in the bush of Kg Lok Buno, Sepanggar, Manggatal.
No plea was recorded from the four as the offence against them under Section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act is under the High Court’s purview.
The charge carries a punishment of either the death penalty or life in prison and whipping with a minimum of 15 strokes, on conviction.
Magistrate Lovely who heard the cases of Kalaichelvan and Yahya, set Aug 2 for mention of their respective charges.
Magistrate Stephanie fixed Sept 4 for mention of the cases of Padillah and Norhadrie.
Earlier, the prosecution applied for a new mention date pending the chemist’s reports and offered no bail to each accused.
The court ordered all accused to be remanded further as the charges against them have no provision for bail.
Meanwhile, two men were fined RM100 or one week in jail each for fraudulently having RM4,000 and RM500 respectively deposited in their bank accounts.
Ahmad Kamal pleaded guilty before Lovely to having RM4,000 in his Public Bank on April 4, 2021 while Ng Calvin admitted to having RM500 in his Maybank account at 7.32pm on July 2, 2022.
They failed to give a satisfactory explanation of how they obtained the money.
They were charged under Section 22A (1) of the Minor Offences Ordinance, which provides for a fine of up to RM100 or up to three months in jail or both, on conviction.
Inspectors Albert Basiri and Suzie @ Stephanie Kupit prosecuted.
