A Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) former deputy director and his wife were found guilty by the Sessions Court here today of corruption involving RM250,000.

Noor Mohamed Khan Mohamed Mastan, 40, was sentenced to five years' jail and fined RM1.25 million or another one year's jail by Judge M.Bakri Abd Majid for abetting his wife Suraya Hani Ahmad Zaki, 33, to secure the letter of award for the tender to set up, operate, conduct tests and commission a digital forensic laboratory at the MCMC.

Suraya Hani, a former private company accounts manager was sentenced to four years' jail and fined RM1.25 million or another one year's jail for corruptly receiving RM250,000 from the chief operations officer of an informatics company as payment for getting the letter of award for the former.

They committed the offence at the company's office at Jalan USJ 9/5T, Subang Business Centre in Subang Jaya at 10.25 am on March 14, 2012.

M.Bakri who ruled that the prosecution had succeeded in proving its case against the duo granted them a stay of execution of the jail term pending an appeal but ordered them to settle their respective fines.

Throughout the trial, Deputy Public Prosecutor Wong Poi Yoke called 40 witnesses while defence counsel Nasir Aziz called four witnesses.