"Resort MD fined RM150,000 for building collapse that took 2 lives,"

The managing director of Male Beach Resort Sdn Bhd was fined RM150,000 by the Besut sessions court for failing to ensure the safety of a building during construction, resulting in the deaths of two migrant workers last November.

Lee Boon Han, 55, pleaded guilty after the charges were read before trial judge Fadhli Mahmud.

The court also ordered Lee to serve six months in jail if he failed to pay the fine, Utusan Malaysia reported.

According to the charge sheet, a three-storey dining hall collapsed, crushing seven workers, sometime between 1am and 5am, on Nov 9 last year.

Two workers, both Indonesian nationals, Suparo and Fathul Munir died in the incident.

Lee was charged with failing to ensure the safety of the building during its construction and causing the death of the two workers.

He was found to have violated his obligation as a contractor to ensure the safety of the building and the work carried out during the construction of the building...

Lee was said to have also failed to provide an environmental impact assessment report for the construction project and hired an “incompetent” site supervisor as well as unskilled workers who were not certified by the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB)...