A Customs officer has been charged at the Sessions Court in Shah Alam, Selangor with misappropriating pangolin scales from a marine enforcement store in North Port.
Ahmad Hilmi Ghazali, 51, was charged under Section 403 of the Penal Code for misappropriation of property at the Sessions Court here on Friday (May 31).
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Ahmad Hilmi Ghazali, 51, was charged under Section 403 of the Penal Code for misappropriation of property at the Sessions Court here on Friday (May 31).
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00:00 A customs officer has been charged with misappropriating pangolin scales from a marine enforcement
00:07 store in North Port.
00:08 Ahmad Hilmi Ghazali was charged at the Sessions Court on Friday under Section 403 of the Penal
00:15 Code for misappropriation of property.
00:18 If convicted, he faces up to five years in jail, whipping, and a possible fine.
00:25 The 51-year-old allegedly induced his colleague, Customs Personnel Mohamed Alif Omar, to hand
00:31 over the pangolin scales, which had been previously seized by the department.
00:36 Ahmad Hilmi, who hails from Kuala Muda, Kedah, is accused of committing the offence between
00:41 September and October 2019.
00:44 According to the charge sheet, the scales were supposed to be handed over to the Wildlife
00:49 and National Parks Department, per Hilitan, the enforcement agency appointed under the
00:54 International Trade in Endangered Species Act 2008.
00:58 It was previously reported that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's MACC (Anti-Money-Laundering
01:04 Division) had arrested an enforcement officer last year under a special operation codenamed
01:10 Op Jaguar.
01:11 The operation, carried out in Klang and Kuala Lumpur, resulted in the seizure of nearly
01:16 two tonnes of pangolin scales, valued at 23.4 million ringgit.
01:22 The scales were believed to have been smuggled into the country before being sent to China
01:26 and other countries.
01:28 Various luxury cars were also confiscated, and several bank accounts containing millions
01:33 of ringgit were frozen.
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