SEBERANG PERAI, Feb. 24 -- The Butterworth Sessions Court jailed a Penang Island City Council (MBPP) worker for a day and fined her RM20,000 after she admitted to five charges of graft involving RM16,800.

Zamira Juneed, 38, admitted to using her position as an architecture assistant officer from the heritage conservation department of MBPP to obtain gratification from five companies as an inducement to speed up the application process of land conversion from residential buildings to hotels.

She obtained gratification amounting to RM16,800 in her bank account at the Butterworth Maybank on five different occasions between January 14 in 2015 and September 22 in 2016.

She was charged under Section 16 (a)(B) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption...