KUALA TERENGGANU: A teacher and his accomplice were sentenced to eight years in prison and fined RM5,000 each by the sessions court here today after being found guilty of trafficking a woman for sexual exploitation.
Judge Zul Zakiqudin Zulkifli meted out the sentence on Hasfyanizam Mansor, 50, and labourer Fazley Jaafar, 31, at the end of the defence case.
The court also ordered them to serve an additional six months in jail if they fail to pay the fine.
The two men were charged under Section 12 of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007, read together with Section 34 of the Penal Code, with trafficking a 29-year-old local woman for sexual exploitation at a condominium on Jalan Sultan Omar here at 2.35am on March 11, 2024.
Deputy public prosecutors Ahmad Hafizudin Manjur Ahmad and Noradila Abdul Latif prosecuted, while lawyer Shahir Mat Jusoh represented the two accused.
