Businessman who went missing for nine years arrested and jailed for cheating


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KUALA LUMPUR: Businessman Datuk Paiman Shakimon, who was missing for nine years, was ordered by the High Court to serve a 13-year jail sentence imposed by the Sessions Court in 2011 on four counts of cheating and using forged documents involving RM12mil.

Judge Datuk Muhammad Jamil Hussin ordered Paiman, 62, who was presented in court, to serve the jail sentence beginning Thursday (Dec 2) and upheld the Sessions Court’s decision which sentenced the man to 13 years in prison.

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