Jobless man jailed 8 months for impersonating deputy minister's special officer

A jobless man has been sentenced to eight months' jail by the Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur for masquerading as the special officer of the deputy communications and multimedia minister to dupe a woman in assisting her production company to obtain a film grant.

Judge Rozina Ayob meted the sentence today on Mohd Zafir Zainuddin, 38, who pleaded guilty of deceiving Noorul Syakillah Ramli by claiming that he was a special officer to the deputy minister of communications and multimedia and promised to obtain a grant for the film ‘Rampas’ from the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (Finas)...