Malek Gutnyin former station manager of Radio Jonglei | Credit | Facebook

A court in Bor has found the former station manager of Radio Jonglei guilty of embezzlement.

Malek Gutnyin – who managed the radio station for about eight years – was charged of mismanaging 69,000 dollars in 2019.

The grant was part of the $93,000 Internews had offered the local media house to pay its staff and maintain the FM.

But in a court ruling on Monday, Judge Lam Tut found Malek guilty of criminal breach of trust under article 341 of the Penal Code.

It stipulates that whoever cheats, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or with a fine or with both.

However, Malek’s defense lawyer counsel Aleer Boot described the ruling against his client as unjust…

“Malek was doing everything in good faith and he had no bad intention. So the radio survived because of the proposal he wrote,” he claimed.

The court has sentenced Malek to 10 years in jail and ordered him to return the money and the car that he had made his.