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SINGAPORE – Singaporean actor and singer Aliff Aziz, popular across the Causeway for his Malay love songs, faces jail time after a district court on Monday (September 14) learned that he did not had been deemed eligible for a Mandatory Treatment Order, or MTO. .
The 29-year-old pleaded guilty in August to one count of burglary and disorderly conduct. Theft in any building used as a human dwelling carries a mandatory jail term of up to seven years, along with a possible fine.
Aliff’s attorney, lead attorney Murali Pillai, told Chief District Judge Victor Yeo that he would be advocating a short jail sentence and a fine.
The judge granted Deputy Prosecutor Pavithra Ramkumar’s request to postpone the sentence until Tuesday. Aliff also admitted to another theft charge, which will be considered at sentencing as part of her plea deal.
The MTO is a community sentencing option for mentally ill offenders, who must attend mandatory treatment sessions with psychiatrists for up to three years in lieu of jail.
He stole money from an Indonesian celebrity
The court previously heard that around midnight on June 7 last year, Aliff met with Indonesian celebrity Raja Yunika Perdhana Putri in his room at the Studio M Hotel. The couple discussed how she could help him advance his singing career in Indonesia.
When she went to the second level of her hotel room to rest, Aliff stole 1 million Indonesian rupees (S $ 92) and $ 300 from her bag on the first floor and left. She changed the foreign currency and spent the money on food and transportation.
Raja Yunika discovered that the money was missing when he woke up around 3 in the morning. She called Aliff, who denied the robbery. Then she made a police report.
Drunken behavior near Orchard Towers
The singer-actor was in trouble with the law again when he was found drunk and behaving in a disorderly manner outside Orchard Towers around 6.25 a.m. on November 10 last year.
Two police officers saw a commotion under a link bridge around 5.30am. Aliff, who was drunk, was seen screaming and gesticulating wildly while surrounded by a crowd of people, some of whom were trying to calm him down.
The officers asked Aliff to calm down and he obeyed. They followed him as he walked away to keep an eye on him.
At around 6.25am, Aliff was seen behaving loudly again: he kicked the left front of a taxi, which was not damaged. This time, Aliff ignored the officers’ instructions to calm down. Later he met an acquaintance on the street and got into a fight with him.
So Aliff was arrested. A video of the incident uploaded online went viral.
He won the singing competition at just 16 years old.
In 2007, at just 16 years old, Aliff became the youngest winner of the Malaysian TV channel Suria’s singing contest, Anugerah. He later appeared on Mediacorp shows.
After serving his national service full-time, he pursued a successful singing and acting career in Malaysia.
But it was his rocky marriage to Malaysian singer and actress Bella Astillah, rumors of extramarital affairs, and subsequent divorce that made headlines recently.
His wife, Malaysian actress Bella Astillah, with whom he has a three-year-old son, divorced him in May last year after telling a court: “My husband always cheats on me.”
But then they reconciled and Bella gave birth to their daughter in Malaysia in July.
On Tuesday, Aliff’s younger sister Aisyah Aziz, herself a popular singer and actress, accompanied him to state courts.
The punishment for disorderly conduct in public, for a first conviction, is a fine of up to $ 2,000 and / or a jail term of up to six months.
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