PUTRAJAYA: A businessman today escaped the gallows after the Federal Court here commuted his death sentence to 30 years in prison for trafficking 9.52...
: A businessman today escaped the gallows after the Federal Court here commuted his death sentence to 30 years in prison for trafficking 9.528 kg of cannabis.
In delivering the court’s decision, Justice Zabariah, however, set aside the death sentence imposed on Mohammad Firdaus and commuted it to 30 years in prison.The other two judges presiding were Datuk Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal and Datuk Abdul Karim Abdul Jalil. In his defense, Mohammad Firdaus claimed that the bag did not belong to him but to an Uber driver. He said that he was taking care of it while waiting for the Uber driver to park the car.
During the trial, the Uber driver, Mohd Sabri Salleh, testified that he received a booking from Mohammad Firdaus through the Uber app to send the latter from KL Sentral to the Kajang KTM station.
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