Five Finance Ministry employees fined for failing to report corruption in first case of its kind

KUALA LUMPUR: A group of five Finance Ministry employees were fined between RM1,500 and RM2,000 each by the Sessions Court here over their failure to report corruption to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), the first case of its kind in the country.

Sessions Court judge Manira Mohd Noor handed down a fine of RM1,500 each against Nurul Ashikin Zulkiflee, 33, and Azad Fadhmi Abdul Rahman, 34, while three others - Siti Nurkhairunnisa Adnan, 32, Mohd Fairus Hussin, 38, and Madiyana Mamat, 39, - were each sentenced to a RM2,000 fine.