Judge Harmi Thamri Mohamad also ordered Zulhilmi Abdul Jabar, 43, Yusrizal Ismail, 43, Hairi Md Ismail, 38, Ranzi Halim, 51, Amir Che Azib, 36, and Badaruddin Mohamad, 40, to serve six months in jail each if they failed to pay the fines.

All of them paid the fines.

Each of them was charged with dishonestly submitting falsified bank statements for October, November and December 2018 of their respective companies to apply for a tender for the privatisation of solid waste collection and public cleansing management in the northern region.

They committed the offence at Wisma Idaman, Environment Idaman (Kedah and Perlis), between Jan 1 and Jan 22, 2019, and were charged under Section 471 of the Penal Code.

Deputy public prosecutor Rehad Abdul Shukur prosecuted while lawyer Intan Nursyafina Baharudin represented Zulhilmi, Yusrizal and Amir. The other three accused were represented by counsel Syed Fakhruzzaman Syed Mansor.