A three-member bench comprising Justices Yaacob Md Sam, P Ravinthran and Ahmad Nasfy Yasin dismissed the PKR youth wing leader’s appeal yesterday.
The court affirmed the sessions court’s decision on April 26, 2018 which sentenced Adam, 33, to six months’ jail and fined him RM30,000 after finding him guilty of six counts of giving false statements and submitting fake documents to the MACC during an investigation in 2017 into claims of his extraordinary wealth.
Yaacob, who delivered the court’s unanimous decision, held that Adam’s conviction was safe and supported by evidence.
Adam’s jail sentence went into effect yesterday.
On the first two charges, Adam was accused of giving false recorded statements to two MACC investigating officers, under Section 32(8)(c) of the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001.
The false statements were related to his career as a businessman, his income, luxury vehicles, RM1.2 million bungalow in Kampung Melayu, Ampang which was bought in cash, RM200,000 loan from his mother-in-law and late grandmother, and RM500,000 loan from an “Ah Long”.
On the other four charges, he allegedly used two fake loan agreement documents from two individuals and two cash vouchers from his company, Gegas Mentari Holdings Sdn Bhd, to mislead the MACC investigating officers, an offence under Section 89 of the same Act.
He allegedly committed the offences at the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya, between 9am and 12.15pm on Feb 10, 2017 and between 9am and 2pm on Feb 22, the same year.
On Nov 26, 2019, he lost his appeal in the High Court.
The court proceeding resumed yesterday to hear submissions by deputy public prosecutor Wong Poi Yoke who submitted that the offences committed by Adam by giving false statements and documents to the enforcement agency to avoid declaring his wealth that was under investigation were serious offences.
She said the offences committed by Adam were not trivial in nature and did not justify a good behaviour bond or only a fine.
On Dec 9 last year, the court heard submissions by Adam’s counsel Muhammad Fadhli Mat Sutris that the prosecution failed to prove that the statements given by his client were false testimony.