He pleads guilty to 79 counts of misusing allocations for the Special Warfare Training Centre in Sungai Udang Camp.
The offences involved payment vouchers for Pulpak travelling allowances and leave claims.
MELAKA: A former army corporal was sentenced to a total of 197 years and six months’ jail and 79 strokes of the cane by the Sessions Court here today on 79 counts of misappropriation involving allocations for the Special Warfare Training Centre (Pulpak) in Sungai Udang Camp here two years ago.
Judge Mohd Nasir Nordin handed down the sentence on Musa Md Dawi, 28, currently a contract worker, after he pleaded guilty to all the charges.
The ex-soldier, who was unrepresented, received 30 months jail and one stroke of the cane for each of the charges, which the judge ordered to run concurrently from today.
Musa was charged with 74 counts of misappropriating Pulpak funds meant for travelling allowances and annual leave claims through creating payment vouchers, amounting to RM46,281.10, which was banked into his own account.
He was charged on three other counts, involving Pulpak travelling allowances totalling RM3,067.60, which were credited into the bank account of Anuar Bolhassan.
He faced two additional counts of pocketing RM889.40 through the bank account of Mohd Ramdan Mohd Sani, involving payment vouchers for Pulpak travelling allowance and leave claims.
Musa committed all the offences at Pulpak Budget Office, Sungai Udang Camp, between April 25 and July 1, 2016.
The charges were framed under Section 403 of the Penal Code, which provides for a jail term of up to five years, whipping and a fine, upon conviction.
Earlier, deputy public prosecutor Irwan Shah Abdul Samat, from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, asked for a deterrent sentence as a lesson to the accused and society since the latter had failed to live up to his responsibilities as a civil servant and military staff member.
According to the DPP, Musa had also absconded and failed to appear in court for remention of the case and trial, necessitating a warrant of arrest, aside from causing inconvenience to many parties and additional costs to search for him.
In mitigation, Musa said he had to support his wife and parents, who were suffering from heart disease.
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