Former CEO drops appeal against sentence for CBT


PUTRAJAYA: Former Sime Bank chief executive Datuk Ismail Zakaria has withdrawn an appeal against his sentence over four charges relating to the issuing of credit facilities amounting to RM175mil.

His counsel Kitson Foong told the Court of Appeal’s three-man panel that he had received instructions from his client’s family to withdraw the appeal.

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