Found guilty of drug abuse, Farid Kamil gets nine months in jail


PETALING JAYA: A magistrate's court here has sentenced actor  Datuk Farid Kamil Zahari to nine months in jail and ordered for him to be put under the surveillance of National Anti-Drugs Agency (AADK) for two years after finding him guilty of using drugs.

Magistrate Nor Ariffin Hisham handed down the sentence here on Wednesday (May 15) after finding the prosecution had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt.

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