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KUALA LUMPUR (June 9): Malaysia’s drive towards a cashless society may eventually eliminate cash-based crimes, but the digitisation of commerce and banking has opened doors to cyber crime, including online scams.
In 2022, the Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) of the Royal Malaysian
Published on: Thursday, April 29, 2021
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Kuala Lumpur: Is it reasonable to impose a compound as high as RM50,000 for standard operating procedure (SOP) violations, when many are still struggling due to the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic?
The question is raised by netizens, who disagreed with the actions taken by the Kelantan police against several small traders in the state.
For them the actions were extreme, inappropriate and lack of empathy, because such heavy compound fines were issued to the common people who were only operating small-scale businesses.
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Their dissatisfaction mounted on Tuesday when celebrity and entrepreneur Noor Neelofa Mohd Noor or Neelofa and her family were slapped with a total compound of RM60,000 for failing to comply with the SOP during her wedding ceremony and breaching regulations on the interstate travel.
Don’t make emergency an issue, free Malaysia from virus first, says legal expert 28 Jan 2021 / 08:56 H. Traders appear to continue their business activities as usual despite the absence of customers following the implementation of the Movement Control Order during a survey around Masjid Jamek. fotoBERNAMA (2021) COPYRIGHTS RESERVED
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 28: The emergency proclaimed by the King to arrest the COVID-19 pandemic in the country should not be made an issue because Malaysia is not the only country that has declared it, said legal expert Datuk Mohd Haaziq Pillay Abdullah.
He said countries such as New Zealand, Japan, Australia, France, Finland and Indonesia had also taken the same path.