Bangladeshi company manager fined RM38,000 for using false documents

KUALA LUMPUR: A Bangladeshi company manager was fined RM38,000 by the Sessions Court here on Wednesday (Oct 22) after pleading guilty to using false documents to provide labourers for construction work at a bridge replacement project site, two years ago.

Judge Azura Alwi, in handing down the sentence on Md Nazmul Islam Babul, 58, ordered the accused to be jailed for 10 months if he failed to pay the fine. The accused paid the fine.

According to the charge, Md Nazmul Islam is accused of using a Subcontract Agreement Letter from Mar Melor Construction and Nieha Enterprise Sdn Bhd to provide labourers for construction work at the FT067/045/90 Bridge Replacement Project site, Baling, Kedah, with a work value of RM6mil dated March 20, 2023, which the accused knew to be false.

The offence was committed at the Enforcement Division, Immigration Department in Putrajaya on June 8, 2023, under Section 471 of the Penal Code, which is punishable under Section 465 of the same code, which provides for a prison sentence of up to two years or a fine or both.

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) deputy public prosecutor M. Esther Jacyntha requested a proportionate sentence to teach the accused a lesson, besides taking into account the total value of the work for the subcontract given to the Immigration Department, which was RM6mil.

Lawyer Hanif Asyraf Mohd Salleh, who represented the accused, requested a fine on the grounds that his client was 59 years old and supports a family. – Bernama