M.Krishnamoorthy
A media coach, adjunct professor and author
In the Middle East, they would cut their hands for robbery. In China, stealing government money would be shot dead.
Najib Razak was convicted for the worst case of kleptocracy; he has left a multi-billion-ringgit debt burden on our government and taxpayers.
Najib’s partial pardon is an unforgivable perversion of the law that shattered the foundation of Malaysia’s criminal justice system, where every man should be equal under the law.
Compare Najib’s crime to a robbery of RM50 and the punishment.
On 7th December 2023, an unemployed man was sentenced to six years in prison and one stroke of the cane by the sessions court here for robbing a man at knife-point of RM50 last week.
Judge Norina Zainol Abidin meted the sentence on M. Krishnamurthi, 49, who pleaded guilty to the robbery charge.
This is a video of the Astro Awani news.
He was charged with robbing Chai Fuh Chang, 43, at the Jinjang MRT motorcycle parking lot here at 11.55 am on Dec 7.
The charge was framed under Section 392 of the Penal Code, which provides imprisonment for up to 14 years and a fine or whipping upon conviction.
Krishnamurthi was ordered to serve his jail term from the date of his arrest, Dec 7.
A mother is still seeking pardon for a firearm-related offence done more than 20 years.
It is the case of a 42-year-old man named Affandi Abdul Rahim – who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001 for a firearm-related offence (he didn’t shoot anyone dead).
He was 20 then, and his mother sought a royal pardon for her son last year.
In the SRC International case, Najib was convicted of abuse of power, CBT, and money laundering over a whopping RM42 MILLION.
The Pardons Board also gave Najib a 76% discount on his RM210 million fine by slashing it to RM50 million (19% more than the RM42 million he was convicted of stealing).
Freelance Writer M. Krishnamoorthy (www.imkrishna.net) is a media coach, adjunct professor and undercover journalist. He has freelanced with Bernama, NST, The Star, and Malaysiakini. He also freelances as a fixer/coordinator for CNN, BBC, German and Australian Television networks and the New York Times. As an undercover journalist, he has highlighted society's concerns.
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