14 Jul 2025
ON SEMICONDUCTOR MALAYSIA SDN. BHD.
- Citation
- NA-63ES-3-02/2022 (Mahkamah Sesyen)
- Court
- Sessions Court
- Case number
- NA-63ES-3-02/2022 (Mahkamah Sesyen)
Although the prosecution established a prima facie case based on official sampling and laboratory analysis showing cadmium at 1.04 mg/L, the defence adduced credible, independent laboratory evidence and challenged the integrity of the prosecution's samples (temperature, pH, storage, equipment and chain of custody). Those challenges raised reasonable doubt such that the prosecution failed to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt; therefore the accused must be acquitted under Regulation 11(1)(b) of the Environmental Quality (Industrial Effluent) Regulations 2009.