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Wednesday 6 January 2010

RMAF Personnel, Company Director To Be Charged Over Missing F-5E Jet Engines

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 (Bernama) -- A Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) personnel with the rank of sergeant and a company director will be charged in the Petaling Jaya Sessions Court Wednesday in connection with the missing two F-5E jet engines.

Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail said the RMAF personnel would be charged for stealing while the company director for disposing off stolen properties.

"Investigations revealed that both F-5E jet engines were removed from the Material Udara 1 (Matra 1) godown in Kuala Lumpur as a result of a collaboration between an RMAF personnel with the rank of sergeant and a company director to dispose off both jet engines," he said in a statement Tuesday night.

He said based on information from witnesses and documents obtained, he ordered the duo to be charged.

The sergeant will be charged under Section 380 of the Penal Code to be read with Section 109 of the same code, while the company director, under Section 414 of the code.

The jets engines were found missing in 2007 while being taken for a routine maintenance from the 12th Squadron (Scorpion) in Butterworth to the RMAF godown in Kuala Lumpur.

The jet engines were discovered stolen by RMAF on May 22, 2008 and a police report was lodged on Aug 4 the same year.

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