MATRA 1 PANGKALAN UDARA TUDM MUDAH DICEROBOH (dwibahasa)

Bangunan Material Processing Shed MATRA 1, Pangkalan Udara TUDM Sungai Besi di mana 2 engin jet pejuang disimpan kurang memiliki sistem keselamatan sehingga dua ketul engin boleh dikeluarkan dengan mudah. Semoga yang telah ditangkap dan dihadapkan ke mahkamah bukan sekadar dua "ekor kambing hitam" sahaja.

Dua tidak mengaku salah curi enjin jet TUDM

Seorang sarjan dari Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia (TUDM) mengaku tidak bersalah di Mahkamah Sesyen Petaling Jaya terhadap pertuduhan bersubahat mencuri dua enjin pesawat F5 milik TUDM.

N Tharmendran, 42, (foto) daripada Pangkalan Udara TUDM Subang yang berpakaian kemeja berwarna putih hanya mengangguk memahami dan minta dibicarakan terhadap pertuduhan itu.

Pengarah sebuah syarikat pembekalan, K Rajandran Prasad, 38, turut mengaku tidak bersalah di mahkamah yang sama terhadap pertuduhan dengan sengaja membantu menghapuskan barang curi milik TUDM itu.

Hakim Aslam Zainuddin membenarkan kedua-dua mereka diikat jamin RM150,000 dengan seorang penjamin dan menetapkan 11 Februari ini untuk sebutan kes itu.

Tharmendran didakwa bersubahat dengan Laskar Udara Mohamad Shukri Mohamad Yusop, untuk melakukan kecurian dua enjin pesawat F5 jenis J85-21 itu di Bangunan Material Processing Shed MATRA 1, Pangkalan Udara TUDM Sungai Besi.

Bagi kesalahan itu dia boleh didakwa mengikut Seksyen 380 Kanun Keseksaan yang dibaca bersama Seksyen 109 kanun yang sama, yang membawa hukuman penjara sehingga 10 tahun dan denda jika sabit kesalahan.

Rajandran, didakwa dengan sengaja menghapuskan dua enjin milik TUDM, di alamat 49 Jalan TS 6/6 Taman Industri Subang, pada 30 April 2008, mengikut Seksyen 414 Kanun Keseksaan yang membawa hukuman penjara sehingga tujuh tahun dan denda jika sabit kesalahan.

Ketika ditanya adakah Mohamad Shukri akan didakwa, Timbalan Pendakwa Raya Raja Rozela Raja Toran berkata beliau masih belum menerima sebarang arahan.

Mengenai kemungkinan lebih ramai dituduh berkaitan dengan skandal itu, Raja Rozela berkata beliau hanya menerima arahan untuk mendakwa kedua-dua tertuduh sahaja.

Terdahulu, Raja Rozela memohon mahkamah memandang serius kerana barang yang dicuri bukan enjin motosikal tetapi ia adalah enjin pesawat pejuang.

Peguam bela V. Ravichandran yang mewakili Tharmendran dan peguam bela Pritam Singh Deol yang mewakili Rajandran memohon kepada mahkamah agar anak guam mereka itu diberi jaminan yang rendah berikutan kesemua akaun telah dibekukan dan tidak
mempunyai wang yang banyak.

Bagaimanapun, Raja Rozela membantah kerana ia bukanlah faktor utama dalam memohon jaminan.

Rajandran dijamin oleh abangnya sementara Tharmendran gagal membayar jaminan.

Sebelum ini, Peguam Negara Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail berkata semua usaha sedang dilakukan oleh kerajaan untuk mendapatkan semula dua enjin yang hilang itu dengan secepat mungkin yang kali terakhir dikesan di Uruguay.

- Bernama

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RMAF Personnel, Company Director Charged Over Missing Jet Engines


PETALING JAYA, Jan 6 (Bernama) -- A Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) sergeant pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here to a charge of abetting the theft of two F5 jet engines belonged to the RMAF.

Clad in a white shirt, N. Tharmendran, 42, of Subang RMAF base, merely nodded when asked whether he understood the charge, and asked to be tried.

A supply company director, K. Rajandran Prasad, 38, also claimed trial in the same court to a charge of helping to dispose of the stolen properties.

Judge Aslam Zainuddin allowed both accused a bail of RM150,000 with one surety and fixed Feb 11 for the mention.

Tharmendran is charged with abetting airman Mohamad Shukri Mohamad Yusop in the theft of the two J85-21 engines at the Material Processing Shed MATRA 1 building, Sungai Besi RMAF Base here.

He is facing a jail sentence of up to 10 years and a fine if convicted under Section 380 of the Penal Code, read together with Section 109 of the same Code.

Rajandran is charged with disposing of the two engines at number 49, Jalan TS 6/6 Taman Industri Subang on April 30, 2008.

He can be jail up to seven years and fined if convicted under Section 414 of the Penal Code.

Asked by reporters whether Mohamad Shukri would also be charged, Deputy Public Prosecutor Raja Rozela Raja Toran said she had yet to receive any directive to that effect.

On whether there would be more people to be charged over the scandal, she said she only received orders to prosecute the two accused.

Earlier Raja Rozela urged the court to view the matter seriously as the items involved were jet fighter engines and not those of motorcycles.

Lawyer V. Ravichandran, who is representing Tharmendran, and Pritam Singh Deol, representing Rajandran, asked the court to impose a lower bail as all the accounts of the accused had been frozen and that their clients did not have much money.

Raja Rozela objected, however, saying the matter was not a factor in setting the bail amount.

Rajandran's bail was posted by his elder brother while Tharmendran failed to post his.

Earlier, Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail said all efforts were being made to recover the two engines which were last traced to Uruguay.

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