Ex-Bersatu member, wife in bid to recover seized luxury vehicles, items
Adam Asmuni and Lyiana Roslee are appealing for the return of cash, cars, motorcycles, luxury watches, handbags, laptops, bracelets, necklaces, as well as Amanah Saham Bhd accounts.
KUALA LUMPUR : The High Court here has fixed June 30 to hear an appeal by a former Bersatu Youth member and his wife seeking to recover luxury vehicles and items seized from them during a 2021 drug raid.
Adam Asmuni and Lyiana Roslee are appealing for the return of cash, cars, motorcycles, luxury watches, handbags, laptops, bracelets, necklaces, as well as Amanah Saham Bhd (ASB) accounts.
Justice K Muniandy earlier allowed Adam's application to adduce fresh evidence to be introduced at the hearing in the form of bank account transactions involving the couple's printing company, Percetakan Alfa Gemilang Sdn Bhd, between 2014 and 2019.
Lawyer Amirrul Jamaluddin, appearing for Adam, told the court that he could file additional written submissions to address the bank account transactions before the hearing date.
Deputy public prosecutor Shahrizzat Amadan appeared for the prosecution.
The couple was arrested by police on Jan 20, 2021. During a raid of the couple's bungalow in Ampang, police also found cannabis plants and bottles containing cannabis liquid.
The couple was subsequently charged in the Ampang magistrates' court on three counts of trafficking and the illegal cultivation of cannabis plants.
Police later filed an application in the sessions court here under Section 32(2) of the Dangerous Drugs (Forfeiture of Property) Act 1988, seeking to forfeit the items seized from them.
Both Adam and Lyiana filed third party claims to regain possession of their items but their applications were dismissed in 2023.
The sessions court only allowed them to recover RM3,250 in seized cash and ordered that RM28,513.97 out of RM81,468,51 in two ASB accounts be returned to Lyiana.
The balance of RM52,954.54 and all other items seized were forfeited to the government.
The court said the couple failed to adduce evidence that the BMW X5 and BMW 328i cars seized had been paid for by Percetakan Alfa Gemilang.
It added that there was no evidence to show the company had made monthly payments to service loans for the purchase of the cars.
The court also found that no witnesses had testified to Lyiana's purchase of the luxury watches from their respective retailers, nor did family members attest to having given gifts in the form of jewellery to Lyiana and her daughter.
The court also said that a chartered accountant should have been called to testify whether Percetakan Alfa Gemilang ever paid income due to the couple into their ASB accounts.
Adam sentenced to seven years' jail, lawyer says
After the proceeding, Amirrul told reporters that Adam had pleaded guilty at the Shah Alam High Court earlier this year to reduced charges under Section 39A(2) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 for the possession of cannabis.
He said the court sentenced Adam to seven years in prison, computed from his date of arrest in 2021, and seven strokes of the rotan.
Lyiana had her charges dropped after Adam pleaded guilty.
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