KUALA TERENGGANU, July 7 — The Sessions Court here today found a teacher and his accomplice guilty of trafficking a woman for sexual exploitation and sentenced them to eight years’ imprisonment and RM5,000 fine each.

Judge Mohd Zul Zakiqudin Zulkifli handed down the sentence on Mohd Hasfyanizam Mansor, 50, and labourer Mohamad Fazley Jaafar, 31, at the end of the defence case.

The court also ordered them to serve an additional six months in prison should they fail to pay the fine.

The two men were charged under Section 12 of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007, read together with Section 34 of the Penal Code, with trafficking the 29-year-old local woman for sexual exploitation at a condominium on Jalan Sultan Omar here at 2.35am on March 11, 2024.

Deputy public prosecutors Ahmad Hafizudin Manjur Ahmad and Noradila Abdul Latif prosecuted, while lawyer Mohd Shahir Mat Jusoh represented the two accused. — Bernama