JUDGMENT

Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim JC:

[1] This has been an application for a revision of the decision of the Sessions Court ('SCJ') sitting at &ang, convicting this applicant on his own plea of guilty for a charge under s. 4(1) of the Anti Money-Laundering Act 2001 ('AMLA'). He was convicted on his own plea of guilty and having heard the plea in mitigation and the submissions on sentence, he was sentenced by the SCJ to two years imprisonment and imposed a pecuniary order (recoverable as a fine) of RM1 million or in default 12 months imprisonment.

[2] He was not satisfied with the sentence imposed and he had appealed against the same, on the ground that the sentence was manifestly excessive. Before the SCJ and subsequently before me, the applicant had urged that he be released on bond under s. 294 of the Criminal Procedure Code ('CPC'). I had, after hearing submissions from both sides, dismissed his appeal and had affirmed the sentence as imposed by the SCJ. His application for stay of execution of the sentence of imprisonment was also dismissed by me.

[3] He had since filed an appeal against my decision dismissing his appeal against sentence. That appeal is still now pending at th