Singer fined RM27k for keeping, confining sun bear

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Former ‘Rockanova’ reality show participant, Zarith Sofia Mohd Yasin, was fined RM27,000 by the Sessions Court here on Wednesday (Jan 15) for keeping and confining a sun bear cub at her apartment in Desa Petaling in June last year.

Zarith Sofia, 28 was fined RM20,000, in lieu six months imprisonment, for the charge of keeping the sun bear (Helarctos Malayanus) and another RM7,000, in lieu four months in jail, for confining the animal.