Filipino gets 10 years, 4 strokes for rape

Hasbi (right) escorted from court

KOTA KINABALU: A 19-year-old Filipino waiter was sent to prison for 10 years and ordered to get four strokes of the cane after he pleaded guilty to raping a 16-year-old local girl.

Hasbi Dani, who was brought before Sessions Court Judge Caroline Bee Majanil for trial, changed his pleas and admitted to committing the offence at the bushes in front of the public park in Likas Bay near here at 10pm on Nov 26, 2010.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Afzan Abd Kahar in presenting the facts of the case, told the court that the girl was waiting for a bus when an unknown man grabbed her by her neck from behind and dragged her into the bushes.

The man, later identified as Hasbi, threatened her not to scream and hit her abdomen and slapped her repeatedly until she passed out. According to the victim, when she regained her consciousness, she found her trousers had been pulled down to her knees.

Afzan said two of the girl's acquaintances who heard her cries for help went to the said place and found Hasbi on top of her trying to strangle her.

Hasbi tried to flee when he realised their presence but the duo managed to nab him. The girl, identified Hasbi during a police identification parade as the man who had raped her. Hasbi who was not represented, requested for a lenient sentence, saying he had repented.

Korean trader loses RM1.2 million in rip-off

CP showing pic of suspect

KOTA KINABALU: A Korean businessman who was sweet talked by three persons, including a Filipino, into joining a business partnership that promised millions of ringgit in profits ended up Iosing RM1.5 million.

The trio, aged  44 to 58, claimed that their company had secured a government project worth  millions of ringgit.
One of the suspects, introduced himself to the victim as the chairman of national Housing Corporation  while another claimed to be a ‘Datuk’ according to Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib.

He said the suspects told the 50-year-old victm that they would be building 1,036 low cost housing units  valued at RM250 miliion in Kampung Mandahan, Papar.


Hamza said the project was non-existent, and the documents and letters, that were shown to the victim were all forged.

Suspect Rasul Ibnu

The victim lodged a police report on May 10 after realising that he had been cheated by the suspects, Hamza told a press conference at the State Police Headquarters in Kepayan yesterday.

According to him, the suspects told the victim that their company would receive 95 per cent of the project.

Believing that the project was genuine, the victim made a couple of payments, including a bank transfer.

The victim only realised he had been cheated after he met and informed a friend inApril and was advised to verify all the documents.  A police report was immediately Iodged by the victim and the police managed to arrest two of the suspects, the Filipino and the Datuk, within 24 hours on May 10.

The third suspect, Rasul  Ibnu, who claimed to be the National Housing Corporation chairman is still at large. Those who know the whereabouts of this man should immediately inform fhe nearest police station, said Hamza.

He said the suspects were also involved in another case where a local man was cheated of about RM400,000 in a RM141 million road construction scam in Lahad Datu.