THE Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today fined a man RM7,000, in default six months’ jail, for improper use of network facilities by making and initiating the transmission of an offensive communication against a female police officer on Facebook two years ago.

Judge N. Priscilla Hemamalini meted out the fine on Mohamad Fatariza Abd Hamid, 49, who pleaded guilty to the charge. The man paid the fine.

He was charged with committing the act on the Facebook account of “Fatariza Hamid” at 2.13am, on July 30, 2021, with the link read at the Cyber and Multimedia Crime Investigation Division Office, Commercial Crime Investigation Department, Bukit Aman police headquarters, KPJ Tower, Wangsa Maju, at 11.05am on the same day.

The charge, under section 233(1)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, carries a maximum RM50,000 fine, jail of up to one year or both.

Deputy public prosecutor Nurilya Ellyna Nor Azmal prosecuted, while lawyer Salmi Hamdan Sabran represented Fatariza. – Bernama, December 8, 2023.