Kota Kinabalu: An entertainment outlet owner was fined RM3,500, in default a month's jail, by the Magistrate's Court here for operating without a valid licence.
Simon Chee Ket Sing pleaded guilty before Magistrate Farrah Fariza Wan Ghazali to committing the offence at Glory Cafe in Kepayan Point at 11pm on July 18 this year.
The offence under Section 3 of the Public Entertainment Ordinance, punishable under Section 11 of the same Ordinance, carries a maximum fine of RM50,000 or up to one year's imprisonment, or both, upon conviction.
In a separate case before Magistrate Dzul Helmy Yunus, Brenda Basil, 27, was fined RM1,200 or two months' jail after admitting to participating in illegal public gambling in front of a sundry shop at Cyber Square Commercial Centre at 2.15pm on Oct 19.
In the same court, 27-year-old Mohd Shahrunizal Hardi was sentenced to eight months' jail from the date of his arrest after pleading guilty to dishonestly concealing a stolen car battery in bushes near Jalan Bantayan, Inanam at 4pm on Oct 22.
