Datuk, brother acquitted, discharged of making false claims over RM1.5mil to supply cooking oil

KUALA LUMPUR: Two brothers who own a subsidised cooking oil packaging company were acquitted and discharged on 52 charges of submitting false claims in connection to supplying cooking oil to retail outlets amounting to over RM1.5mil.

Earlier, Datuk Mohd Farid Mohamad, Ali, 44, and his brother, Mohd Fadhil, 40, were given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal on all charges.