A FORMER Negeri Sembilan deputy immigration director was fined RM5,000 in lieu of five months in prison by the Sessions Court in Seremban today for falsifying documents.

Judge Madihah Harullah meted the sentence on Nurulshima Mislan, 45, after she pleaded guilty to the charge for fraudulently or dishonestly using as genuine documents which she knew to be forged, while on duty at Negri Sembilan Immigration Department office.

She was charged under Section 471 of the Penal Code, an offence punishable under Section 465 of the same code, which carries a maximum of two years’ imprisonment or shall also be liable to a fine or both upon conviction.

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission deputy public prosecutor Mohamad Azriff Firdaus Mohamad Ali prosecuted the case while lawyers Muhammad Syafiq Stewart Abdullah and Datuk Abu Bakar Isa Ramat represented the accused.

In the mitigation, Syafiq asked for a minimum fine saying that his client suffers from supraventricular tachycardia, an erratic heartbeat disease and has four school-going children aged nine to 18 to support.

Nurulshima paid the fine. – Bernama, October 15, 2021.