Court of Appeal upholds businessman's death sentence for drug trafficking

PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has upheld the death sentence imposed on a businessman for trafficking in 9.528 kg of cannabis.

This followed a decision by a three-man panel of the Court of Appeal comprising Justices Datuk Hadhariah Syed Ismail, Datuk See Mee Chun and Datuk Azmi Ariffin, in dismissing the appeal by Mohammad Firdaus Mohsin, 38, to set aside his conviction and death sentence.