A Japanese woman on death row for drug trafficking in Malaysia will appeal for a lesser punishment, her lawyer has said, through a recently enacted law allowing such prisoners to petition the country's highest court for sentence reduction.
PUTRAJAYA, April 6 A former sofa repair workshop worker escaped the gallows when the Court of Appeal here today set aside his conviction and death sentence on the charge of trafficking 1.6 kilogrammes of cannabis, four years ago. The panel of three judges led by Datuk Seri Kamaludin Md Said.
GEORGE TOWN, Jan 26 Penang police crippled a drug trafficking syndicate with the arrest of three men and a woman and seized drugs worth almost RM2 million in a series of raids from January 20 to 22. State Police chief Datuk Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain said, acting on a tip-off and intelligence.
PUTRAJAYA, Dec 17 An Argentinian man today escaped the gallows after the Court of Appeal here set aside his conviction and death sentence for trafficking 2.8 kilogrammes of cocaine, four years ago. A three-member panel led by Justice Datuk Hanipah Farikullah ordered Javier Edgardo Silva, 42, to.
JOHOR BARU, Oct 19 The federal police will hold discussions on closer cooperation with the Customs Department, following two incidents of international drug syndicates using Malaysian ports as transit points to smuggle illicit drugs to a third country. Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal.