Trader fined over offensive post on copter crash


TAIPING: An online trader who made an offensive remark about the helicopter tragedy at the naval base in Lumut has been fined RM23,000 by the Sessions Court here.

Judge Nabisha Ibrahim meted out the sentence on Saifuddin Shafik, 35, yesterday after he pleaded guilty to the charge. He would have served three months in prison if he had failed to pay the fine.

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