SEREMBAN: The president of a sports association here has been arrested for impersonating a Datuk.

State Commercial Crimes chief Supt Kamal Faizul Md Zain said police had obtained a remand order to probe the suspect’s fake Federal and state Datukships.

The man, who is a company director, was arrested when he turned up at the police station here for his statement to be recorded at 11am on Tuesday.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday-A gaming expert told the magistrate’s court here today that 27 slips of paper with horse racing stakes amounting to $124,260 were seized during a raid last year.

Insp Yeong Kim Chiang, attached to the anti-vice and gaming department of the Federal Territory police headquarters here, said there were 28,305 punting tickets, estimated at $4 per ticket, written on the 27 pieces of paper.

He said that bookmakers would normally give a discount of 20 per cent on each tickets were sold at$5 each at turf clubs by the Malayan Racing Association.

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SEREMBAN : The defence lawyer in the case of a woman charged with injuring her stepson leading to his death four years ago, told the Sessions Court here that her husband should have been investigated on the matter.

Jerald Gomez told Judge Sabariah Atan yesterday that the deceased’s father, M. Mohan, was the most likely person to injured the boy and he should have been investigated before being eliminated as a suspect.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Mon: Thirty-four transvestites were charged in a magistrate’s court here today with indecent behavior in a public place while eight of them also faced an additional charge of not having identity cards.

Thirty-two men aged between 18 and 41 pleaded guilty to the first charge of indecent behavior by wearing women’s clothes at Jalan Sultan Ismail and Jalan Haji Taib at 1am on March 24 whereas the eight admitted to the second offence committed at the same place and time.

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KUALA LUMPUR: A Federal Reserve Unit member told a magistrate’s court yesterday that Tan Sri Rahim Noor had never instructed his officer to strip two men caught in an unlawful assembly and examine if they were sodomised by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

L/Kpl Jamaluddin Yusof disagreed with defence counsel Jerald Allen Gomez that the incident had occurred in the room of former Inspector-General of Police at Bukit Aman on Sept 21 last year. He was testifying against businessman Abdul Rahim Hassan and medical student Syakirin Mohd Senin, charged with three others for not heeding police orders to disperse and taking part in an unlawful assembly on Sept 21, 1998, at 10.45pm at the Bukit Jalil LRT Station.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Tues – The sedition trial of lawyer Karpal Singh at the High Court here was put off to next year to make way for an on-going murder trial.

Foreign observers were present – QC Antony Arlidge for the Bar Council of UK, Bar Association, QC Mark Trowell for Lawasia, Jerald Gomez for the Commonwealth Lawyers Association and UN Special Rapporteur Datuk Param Cumaraswamy

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A DEBT collection agency continued to harass a family to settle a debt of $36,000 despite being instructed by its client to lay off the case.

The debtor’s lawyer, Jerald Gomez told the Malay Mail, “There will be chaos if creditors who have a claim pending in court decide to resort to using gangsters disguised as debt collectors to collect money.”

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KUALA LUMPUR: “Dia datang dari belakang ketika saya sedang menyiapkan kerja dan mencabul saya berulang kali,” kata seorang pekerja bank yang mendakwa menjadi mangsa cabul pengurusnya, di ibu kota di sini, kelmarin.

Dalam kejadian jam 7 malam itu, mangsa berusia 23 tahun terpaksa melalui tempoh sepuluh minit yang menyeramkan selepas menjadi mangsa pengurusnya yang dipercayai dahagakan seks.

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IPOH, Thurs. – The magistrate’s court today allowed an application by the prosecution to discharge a businesswoman charged with two counts of misappropriating RM3,000.

Magistrate Tan Hooi Leng said she was using her judicial discretion as provided for under section 254 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

“I am ruling a discharge but not amounting to an acquittal because the prosecution has witnesses to call” she said.

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KUALA LUMPUR, – A former supermarket director was yesterday slapped with 31 charges of money laundering involving RM2.4million.

Ang Keat Chuan, 52, a former director of the Billion Shopping Centre, claimed trial at the Ampang Sessions Court to the charges under the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti –terrorism Financing Act 2001.

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