Four charged with SA envoy's abduction

[dArKeR]

Kuala Lumpur - Three Pakistanis and a Singaporean were charged in a Malaysian court on Wednesday with abducting a South African diplomat in May.

Deputy High Commissioner Nicky Scholtz, 54, reported that he was forced into a car as he walked along a Kuala Lumpur street on May 23, robbed and held prisoner for several days before being freed.

Pakistani nationals Nisar Ahmad Khan Sardar Ali Khan, 35, Arshad Mehmood Mohammad Shafi, 38, and Shahid Mehmood Muhamad Bashir Ahmad, 28, and Singaporean Narajan Singh Ujagar Singh, 67, pleaded not guilty to the charge of abducting him, the Bernama news agency said.

The three Pakistanis were also charged with stealing a chequebook, a South African passport, 10 000 Taiwan dollars (about R2 000) and a handphone from Scholtz's hotel room.

'The suspects face a maximum jail term of seven years'
All the accused were denied bail.

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1. A max jail term of 7 years, what is the min 6 months? Then no bail for a min 6 month crime? What would be the bail for Westerners?

[WilliamPitt]

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