TEMERLOH: A police superintendent, who is already facing three charges of money laundering in a court in Johor, has been charged with another two counts of similar allegations involving an amount close to RM2.8mil in a Sessions Court here on Wednesday.
Supt Azmi Osman, 52, was charged with committing the offences between Feb 6, 2002 and Oct 2, 2003.
He was said to have committed the offences at Malayan Banking Berhad, No 1, Jalan Haji Kassim, Mentakab.
Supt Azmi claimed trial to both charges.
In the first charge, he was accused of accepting RM2,093,300, received from illegal activities, into his bank account on Feb 6, 2002, and Dec 20, 2002.
Supt Azmi was also accused of accepting RM683,850, received from illegal activities, into the same account on Jan 7, 2003, and Oct 2, 2003.
The charges were read before Sessions Judge Ishak Bakri.
The accused was charged under Section 4(1)(a) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act 2001 and if convicted, he could be fined up to RM5mil, or jailed up to five years, or both, for each charge.
Supt Azmi was represented by counsel C.N. Sritharan while leading the prosecution was Anti-Money Laundering and Forfeiture of Property Unit head Dzulkifli Ahmad, who was assisted by Muhd Saifuddin Hashim Musaimi.
Bail was fixed at RM100,000 with one surety for each charge and Supt Azmi's international passport was impounded by the court.
The court also allowed Dzulkifli's application for the cases to be transferred to Sessions Court in Johor Baru and be heard together with Supt Azmi's three other charges.
It then fixed Oct 31 for the cases to be re-mentioned in the Johor court.
Earlier, Dzulkifli applied for bail be set at RM200,000 with one surety.
However, Sritharan, who took 15 minutes to present his argument, asked for the sum to be reduced on the grounds that his client was already facing three charges and needed to pay a bail of RM200,000.
He assured the court that Supt Azmi would not run away because the accused was required to report to the disciplinary board every week until all the cases were settled.
Supt Azmi was later seen leaving the court with his lawyer around noon after posting his bail.
On Tuesday, the senior police officer was charged with three counts of laundering almost RM1.3mil.
The amount of money he was said to have received from illegal activities now totals more than RM4mil.
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