“Urgent! If anybody sees a blue compact car (brand name and licence plate number), please lodge a police report via the 993 hotline as soon as possible. And give cooperation to all our friends there. A kidnapping has occurred. Please paste this SMS. Hopefully the person is safe. ” This is the translation of a .
A Malaysian manager at a local supplier business was produced in court yesterday to face 37 allegations of corruption involving gratifications totalling more than B$1.35 million to officers of Brunei Shell Petroleum Company Sdn Bhd. The case, conducted by a team of seven prosecutors, is being defended by Roy Prabhakaran of Sankaran Halim Advocates and .
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court ordered the former Cambodian Ambassador to Brunei to pay almost US$470,000 in compensation and damages to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a civil case, following his conviction in absentia last year for embezzlement of state funds. Nan Sy, who was Ambassador to Brunei until May last year, was charged .
Five local men were produced in court to face a charge of theft of valuables from a home in the wee hours and ordered remanded to assist police investigations. Senior Magistrate Faisal PD Kefli granted the prosecution’s application to further remand Rudy Ermani bin Mohd Daud, Jafry bin Mohammad Daud, Khairul Fadillah bin Tassim, Dahlan .
A mother and daughter were sentenced to jail following convictions of abusing their maid after the Bandar Magistrate’s Court balanced the mitigating factors of the defendants and aggravating facts of the case. Prosecutors established a prima facie case against daughter Siti Noorendra Puteri binte Hj Tasrif and mother Hjh Rohaya binte Hj Lamzi and a .
Bandar Seri Begawan – An unemployed Bruneian man, a father of 10 children, was arrested by officers of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) recently for possessing 456.52 grammes of what was believed to be syabu’ and cash worth $15,400 believed to be proceeds from selling the drug. It is the biggest syabu seizure in the .
A 33-year-old local woman was fined $7,000 or jail for 28 weeks in default of payment after the defendant admitted using her friend’s passport as her own for travelling. Diana @ Haninah binti Abd Hamid, an RBAF personnel, pretended to sleep in the passenger seat of a vehicle driven by another woman at the departure .
Bandar Seri Begawan – Two Indian brothers claimed that a man went on a rampage in their convenience shop in Jalan Batu Satu on Wednesday night. One of the brothers was allegedly hit with a bottle by the suspect and required medical treatment for injuries to his head, hand and knee. Kumar, the shop owner, .
A 43-year-old maid who pleaded guilty to abusing her employer’s children before the Intermediate Court was sentenced yesterday to an overlapping jail term, and to be on a bond for good behaviour for one year. Sri Supriandarinah was sentenced to 45 days in jail, which was to commence on the date when she was first .
A Public Works Department clerk was sentenced to jail for 16 months upon conviction of charges under 420 of the Penal Code but was allowed to serve the term at a later date as he intends to appeal the Magistrate’s Court’s conviction against him and sentence passed. The stay of execution of serving sentence was .
