A senior immigration officer was sentenced to four years in prison and fined RM20,000 by the Johor Bahru sessions court for soliciting and accepting bribes from two vegetable suppliers six years ago.
Judge Ahmad Kamal Arifin Ismail found Zulkifly Abd Za’par guilty of 19 offences under Section 16(a)(B) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act.
He was charged with seeking RM2,000 monthly and receiving RM50,000 in bribes from the two suppliers as an inducement to not take action against their undocumented foreign workers.
The court meted out a four-year jail sentence on each of the 19 charges but ordered the terms to run concurrently.
Zulkifly, who used to be attached to the immigration department’s anti-trafficking and anti-money laundering division, committed the offences in…