A former bank sales manager was fined RM210,000 by the Sessions Court after pleading guilty to 20 alternative charges involving bribes totalling RM211,636.
The accused, Mohamad Faqih Mustapha, 37, admitted to committing the offences between May 2018 and September 2022 while employed at a bank located in Graha Peladang, Jalan Hang Tuah.
According to the charges, Mohamad Faqih received 20 monetary transfers — 19 into his sister’s bank account and one into his own — as inducements for facilitating housing loan referrals from his bank to several law firms.
He was also charged with failing to report the receipt of the bribes to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), as required under the law.
In mitigation, defence counsel Azrul Zulkifli Stork appealed for a lighter sentence, citing that it was his client’s first offence, that he was remorseful, and currently unemployed.
Deputy public prosecutor Sharina Farhana Nor Sa’ari urged the court to impose an appropriate and deterrent sentence.
Judge Elesabet Paya Wan ordered Mohamad Faqih to pay a fine of RM210,000, with a default imprisonment of between two and four months if the fine was not paid.
The accused settled the fine immediately, and the court ordered the return of his bail amounting to RM87,000.
