KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's High Court on Wednesday sentenced an Iranian man to hang after he was convicted of trafficking some 312 grams of methamphetamine in the country. According to local reports, which cited court officials, Abbas Shirazi, 26, who worked at a factory was charged with committing the offence at the Customs D inspection counter, Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang at 10.25am on June 15, 2010. Justice Noor Azian Shaari in her judgement dismissed as “flimsy” Abbas' defense that he was offered a substantial amount of money to bring a pair of sandals and a hair straightener as samples to Malaysia and that he was unaware of the drugs concealed in the sandals. “Hence the court finds that the prosecution has succeeded in establishing its case beyond reasonable doubt,” she said. The prosecution was led by Deputy Public Prosecutor Azamuddin Abd Aziz from the Royal Malaysian Customs while Abbas, who managed a smile in the dock as Noor Azian passed the sentence on him, was represented by Datuk N. Sivananthan.
