A former stock trader was sentenced to six months in jail yesterday for posting false information online about a locally listed IT firm, Datacraft Asia, in 2004. In his judgment on Able Wang Ziyi, Justice VK Rajah said that the punishment is a necessary 'deterrent sentence', taking into account the 'strong public interest militating against mischief in the market through the mass media such as the Internet'.
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