KUALA LUMPUR: A Datuk and his brother have been acquitted of 52 charges involving false claims amounting to more than RM1.5mil related to the supply of cooking oil to retail companies.
High Court judge Justice Noorin Badaruddin made an order of a discharge and acquittal of Datuk Mohd Farid Mohamad Ali, 44, and Mohd Fadhil Mohamad Ali, 40, after their application for an acquittal was not objected to by the prosecution.
“The court hereby allows the application for an acquittal from both applicants.
“Therefore, the applicants are discharged and acquitted from all charges,” she said yesterday.
Earlier in the proceedings, lawyer Datuk Seri Dr Jahaberdeen Mohamed Yunoos, who represented the brothers, made the application for an acquittal of all the charges.
“I was made to understand that the prosecution has no objection to our request,” he said.
Deputy public prosecutor Rasyidah Murni Adzmi said the prosecution had no objection over the matter as both applicants had paid a compound related to the offence they were charged with.
On June 20, 2022, the Sessions Court here gave an order of a discharge not amounting to an acquittal for the two brothers following an application by the prosecution after they had paid the compound.
The brothers then went to the High Court to apply for an order of a discharge amounting to an acquittal for all the charges.
On June 25, 2021, Mohd Farid and Mohd Fadhil claimed trial in the Sessions Court to the charges.
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