THE act of perjury is punishable under section 191 of the Malaysian Penal code, while section 193 of the penal code specifies that anyone found guilty of perjury can be punished with imprisonment of up to 7 year.
BANDHULAND Jayathilake, from the infamous Jean Sinnappa murder case, is perhaps the most to talked about perjury convict in Malaysia last century.
ON 17 July 1981, 35-year-old Bandhulanda Jayathilake was found guilty of perjury and sentenced to ten years in jail by the Kuala Lumpur High Court, therefore becoming the first person in the whole of Malaysia to be convicted for perjury in a murder trial.
IF you want to know more, READ : it on Wikipedia
SO what has all this got go do with Malaysia in this day and age ?
NOT sure about the rest of Malaysia , but I am mighty interested to know if Syed Saddiq had committed perjury.
DID his parents commit perjury? READ : MACC officers pressured Syed Saddiq to support Muhyiddin, parents tell court
IF they did not , where are the charges on those guilty parties?
THIS the same thing that has taken place in the Revenue Group Bhd case, against it two founders.
REVENUE Group, itself without even negotiating with the two founders, withdrew all their civil cases against them as soon as former managing director Eddie Ng Chee Siong took the witness stand.
WHAT Eddie Ng Chee Siong said was shocking. READ : Between 2018 and 2022, he aware that one of the founders was holding the registration of the car on behalf of the company and it's audited accounts, the car was listed as a company asset
SO what was all the drama about until the edge had highlight it READ; as a 2023 Corporate Governance Stinker.
WHY did RM1 billion in value go to dust? WHY is MACC giving Eddie Ng Chee Siong a free pass, and but still want to go after the two founders when the hearing judge itself had asked the MACC prosecuting team to have a relook on merits of proceeding?
HAVE the MACC become obsessed with the 90 per cent conviction sucesss rate, that basic decency, fairness and justice have taken a back seat.??