Izzuddin Mazri, 31, was also ordered to be given a total of 20 strokes of the rotan.

A three-member Federal Court bench chaired by Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat ordered Izzuddin’s jail term to begin on Sept 30, 2016, the day he was arrested.

Izzuddin joined the customs department in 2014 and worked at KLIA in Sepang before he was arrested by police.

Earlier, lawyer Kee Wei Lon informed the bench that the Attorney-General’s Chambers had accepted representations for the charges to be reduced from trafficking to possession.

Deputy public prosecutor Khusairy Ibrahim confirmed the matter.

In February 2019, Izzuddin was convicted and sentenced to death on two counts of trafficking by the High Court, a decision affirmed by the Court of Appeal in November 2021.

Today, he pleaded guilty in the apex court to being in possession of 1.433kg of the drug at Taman Langat Murni in Banting, Selangor, at 5.30pm on Sept 30, 2016.

He admitted to holding a bag containing the drug and later led a police raiding party to a house in the residential area where another 854.57g of cannabis was discovered.

He was jailed for 15 years on the first charge and another 10 on the second.

The bench ordered that both sentences run concurrently.