Fadley Faisal
The Magistrate’s Court on March 9 handed a six years’ jail sentence to a police constable after a trial on charges for scamming people into investments and money laundering.
The court also ordered now former police constable 5953 Mohamad Azri Al Azhar Edham Khalid to compensate the victims totalling BND29,100, or risk serving two months and two weeks’ jail in default of payment additionally.
The defendant earlier denied nine cheating charges and three money laundering charges.
Senior Magistrate Hajah Ervy Sufitriana binti Haji Abdul Rahman found the case to have been proven beyond reasonable doubt by Deputy Public Prosecutor Dayangku Didi-Nuraza binti Pengiran Abdul Latiff against the defendant of cheating two victims to part with BND1,300 by offering them in a non-specific investment scheme.
The defendant was also found guilty of having made a single victim part with BND30,400 under the pretense of being able to invest the money in Forex trading.
The defendant’s series of scams occurred in June 2018, with the defendant promising monthly returns to each and every deal he made with the victims.
The defendant transferred BND15,860 of the money to his wife’s bank account in three transactions in June 2018. The defendant made BND1,600 in restitution to one of the victims before the case came to light.
