386) CONSIDER ACCOUNT MULES FOR HOUSE ARREST, GOVT TOLD - NEW STRAITS TIMES - 09/03/2024

KUALA LUMPUR: The government should consider imposing home detention under the Licensed Release of Prisoners (PBSL) on "account mules", said the Malaysian Muslim Consumers Association (PPIM).

Its chief activist Nadzim Johan, in welcoming the move to introduce PBSL, said the affected detainees would be able to continue working and hence, help maintain productivity as they were able to generate income from home.

"It was understood that home detention would be implemented on inmates serving jail terms of four years and below through PBSL.

"Placing them under house arrest would also help ease the burden on the government," he said in a statement.
PPIM believed that "second chance" offered by the programme would benefit individuals with chronic diseases, senior citizens, disabled people and pregnant women, he said.

Meanwhile, those who were found violating the home detention should be given more severe punishment, he said.

It was reported that the government has in principle agreed to implement the PBSL that allows prisoners serving jail time of four years and below to be subject to home detention as an effort to reduce overcrowding in prisons.

The Home Ministry is currently in the process of examining the implementation method from the point of view of relevant legal provisions, to determine whether or not the existing laws and regulations need to be reviewed.

Article by: New Straits Times

CONSIDER ACCOUNT MULES FOR HOUSE ARREST, GOVT TOLD

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