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Apr 7, 2010
Jail, caning for harassment
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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> TWO men were packed off to prison for five years and three years for helping loansharks to harass innocent victims. Muhammad Harfiyan Ahjiman, 22, who was given the higher sentence, was also ordered to be given 10 strokes of the cane after pleading guilty to five of nine charges. The co-accused, Muhammad Faizal Abdul Razak, 21, was given 36 months' jail and eight strokes of the cane. He admitted to four charges of acting on behalf of unlicensed moneylenders to cause annoyance by ferrying Harfiyan to the HDB estates and acting as his lookout on Nov 30 and Dec 2 last year. The court heard that Harfiyan agreed to work as a runner for a loanshark after Juanda Jamal, 44, whom he met at his workplace, had defaulted in payment.
Juanda, who is at large, had asked him to borrow money on his behalf and paid him $100 for every loan he got from the loanshark. Harfiyan used a hammer to smash the window panels of two units at Hougang on Nov 30, causing damage of about $150 each. He also sprayed indelible red spray and wrote graffiti on staircase landings as well as chained the main doors of units at Jurong West and Bukit Batok Central 1 with padlocks. He paid Faizal $100 for driving him to the locations and to alert him in the event the police came. Each could have been fined up to $40,000 and/or jailed for up to three years on each count plus not more than four strokes of the cane.
Apr 7, 2010
Jail, caning for harassment
<!-- by line --> By Elena Chong
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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> TWO men were packed off to prison for five years and three years for helping loansharks to harass innocent victims. Muhammad Harfiyan Ahjiman, 22, who was given the higher sentence, was also ordered to be given 10 strokes of the cane after pleading guilty to five of nine charges. The co-accused, Muhammad Faizal Abdul Razak, 21, was given 36 months' jail and eight strokes of the cane. He admitted to four charges of acting on behalf of unlicensed moneylenders to cause annoyance by ferrying Harfiyan to the HDB estates and acting as his lookout on Nov 30 and Dec 2 last year. The court heard that Harfiyan agreed to work as a runner for a loanshark after Juanda Jamal, 44, whom he met at his workplace, had defaulted in payment.
Juanda, who is at large, had asked him to borrow money on his behalf and paid him $100 for every loan he got from the loanshark. Harfiyan used a hammer to smash the window panels of two units at Hougang on Nov 30, causing damage of about $150 each. He also sprayed indelible red spray and wrote graffiti on staircase landings as well as chained the main doors of units at Jurong West and Bukit Batok Central 1 with padlocks. He paid Faizal $100 for driving him to the locations and to alert him in the event the police came. Each could have been fined up to $40,000 and/or jailed for up to three years on each count plus not more than four strokes of the cane.
