PUTRAJAYA – The Court of Appeal has upheld former Ampang PKR Youth chief Datuk Adam Rosly Abdullah’s conviction, six-month jail term and RM30,000 fine for giving false statements and submitting fake documents to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.
A three-member bench, comprising Datuk Yaacob Md Sam, Datuk P. Ravinthran and Datuk Wira Ahmad Nasfy Yasin, dismissed Adam Rosly’s appeal yesterday.
The appellate court affirmed the sessions court’s decision on April 26, 2018 to sentence Adam Rosly to six months’ jail and fine him RM30,000 after finding him guilty on six counts of giving false statements and submitting fake documents to MACC during an investigation a year earlier into claims of his extraordinary wealth.
Yaacob, delivering the panel’s unanimous decision, said Adam Rosly’s conviction was “safe” and supported by evidence.
He issued a warrant of committal against the 33-year-old for his jail sentence to take effect from yesterday.
On the first two charges, Adam Rosly was accused of giving false statements to two MACC officers, under Section 32(8)(c) of the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001.
The statements were related to his career as a businessman, his income and luxury vehicles, a RM1.2 million bungalow in Kg Melayu, Ampang, bought with cash, a RM200,000 loan from his mother-in-law and late grandmother, and a RM500,000 loan from an Ah Long.
On the other four charges, he was accused of using two fake loan agreement documents from two individuals, and two cash vouchers from his company, Gegas Mentari Holding Sdn Bhd, to mislead MACC officers, an offence under Section 89 of the same act.
The offences were committed at the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya between 9am and 12.15pm on February 10, 2017, and between 9am and 2pm on February 22 the same year.
On November 26, 2019, he lost his appeal at the high court.
The court proceedings yesterday heard submissions by deputy public prosecutor Wong Poi Yoke, who submitted that the offences committed by Adam Rosly are serious in nature, and so, a bond of good behaviour or merely a fine is insufficient.
On December 9 last year, the court heard submissions by Adam Rosly’s counsel, Muhammad Fadhli Mat Sutris, that the prosecution failed to prove that the statements given by the accused were false testimony. – Bernama, March 2, 2021
