Bitcoin miners fined RM75,000, jailed 14 days each for bribing TNB employee

• Two men were arrested & jailed for 14 days 
• Goh How Keong & Gan Tze Lee were fined RM 75,000
• Rushan also ordered the forfeiture of RM83,380

Two men were imprisoned 14 days and fined RM75,000 each by the Sessions Court here for paying off a Tenaga Nasional Bhd worker with RM15,000.

Goh How Keong, 50, and Gan Tze Lee, 49 were accused of paying off Mohd Amir Mohamad as instigation not to make a move against them for taking power to mine digital currency at a few premises here and in Senawang.

Amir was a knowledge and implementation official with Tenaga Nasional’s extraordinary commitment against misfortunes.

They were charged with bribing Mohd Amir Mohamad as inducement 

Judge Rushan Lutfi Mohamed likewise requested the couple to be imprisoned for quite some time on the off chance that they couldn’t pay the fine. The couple lodged the offense at a vehicle leave at Stadium Tunku Abdul Rahman in Taman Paroi Jaya on Nov 5 last year.

They were charged under Section 16(b)(A) of the MACC Act 2009, culpable under Section 24(1). Wrongdoers can be imprisoned as long as 20 years and fined at least multiple times the worth of the pay off or RM10,000, whichever is higher, upon conviction.

Rushan additionally requested the relinquishment of RM83,380, continued from criminal operations which were seized from the couple. As per current realities of the case, the couple had been engaged with cryptographic money mining exercises since the mid-2021.

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Judge Rushan Lutfi Mohamed ordered the duo to be jailed for 12 months 

In August, Amir’s group assaulted a structure where cryptographic money mining was being done.

They then, at that point, saw a man in his vehicle outside the premises, who was subsequently settled to be Goh. Goh got Amir’s contact number and asked him not to annihilate the machines utilized for the mining exercises seized by his group.

He additionally proposed to pay Amir for this as well as not to make a move on different premises. On Nov 15, he gave over RM15,000 to Amir, which was seen by MACC officials.

The MACC’s Mohamad Azriff Firdaus Mohamad Ali arraigned while the respondents were addressed by Siew Yen Mee In mitigation, Siew requested that the court force a light sentence as the pair had saved the court’s time by conceding and had families to accommodate.

The couple were captured on Feb 28 and have been in remand since March 1.

Nancy J. Allen is a crypto enthusiast and believes that cryptocurrencies inspire people to be their own banks and step aside from traditional monetary exchange systems. She is also intrigued by blockchain technology and its functioning.

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