Apr.05, 2010, 3:01:00 PM
A former managing director of a logging company was sentenced to six years' jail and three strokes of the rotan by the Sessions Court here Monday after he was found guilty of cheating Bangkok Bank of RM4.5mil and 50 counts of money laundering.
Ibrahim Salleh, 46, from Ampang was sentenced to three years' jail and three stokes of the rotan for cheating Bangkok Bank, five years ago.
He was sentenced to three years' jail on each of 50 counts of money laundering with the sentences to run concurrently.
Judge Rozana Ali Yusoff ordered the sentences for cheating and money laundering to run consecutively.
The judge said Ibrahim failed to raise a reasonable doubt on the prosecution's case where 27 witnesses testified.
Ibrahim Salleh, who is now Jalinkom Sdn Bhd chairman, was alleged of defrauding Bangkok Bank of RM4.5mil for the delivery of timber and 50 counts of money laundering, both in 2005.