Jail terms should be spared for two men who conspired against the Finance Department because of their "partly good intentions" and not a "single dollar" was proven to have been taken, the offenders' lawyers have argued.
Department worker Abdul Aziz El-Debel and IT consultant Raminder Singh Kahlon had pleaded not guilty to conspiring with each other and a third man with the intention of dishonestly obtaining a gain from the Commonwealth between March 2019 and June 2020.
