PUTRAJAYA: A Singaporean taxi driver will serve a four-year term after he lost his appeal for smuggling an 11-year-old boy of a Chinese national to Germany.
Describing human trafficking as a grave offence, Court of Appeal president Tan Sri Raus Md Shariff, chairing a three-man bench, unanimously dismissed Ng Gim Teck's final appeal to set aside a decision of the Shah Alam High Court which enchanced his jail term from six months to four years.
Ng was sentenced to six months' jail and fined RM20,000 in default six months jail, by the Sepang Sessions Court when he pleaded guilty to the charge of smuggling Zhang Xu at the Immigration Counter, Departure Hall, level 4, KLIA, Sepang, Selangor at 7pm on Sept 29, last year. Full story
