A FEW recent decisions by the courts on sentencing white-collar criminals have thrust a seemingly perennial problem into the limelight again – that of the lack of deterrent sentencing for such perpetrators.
While other countries such as Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore not to mention the United States, have taken the bold move of dishing out custodial sentences on directors of listed companies who have broken the law, this is not the case in Malaysia.
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