ALOR SETAR: A company owner was charged in the Sessions Court here Tuesday (Jan 24), with five counts of submitting false documents to claim the PenjanaKerjaya 2.0 incentives, amounting to RM17,500, from the Social Security Organisation (Socso) in 2021.
The accused, Muhammad Syakireen Othman, 36, pleaded not guilty after the charges were read before Judge Rohatul Akmar Abdullah.
All charges are framed under Section 18 of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 and punishable under Section 24 of the same law which provides imprisonment for up to 20 years and a fine not less than five times the value of the subject matter of the offence or RM10,000 whichever is higher, upon conviction.
However, the accused, who was not represented, appealed for a lower bail on the grounds that he had to support a wife and two children, aged five and six, in addition to looking after his mother and two brothers who are disabled. Earlier, in the same court, a police sergeant, Muhamad Fitry Ismail, 32, pleaded not guilty to a charge of accepting a bribe of RM1,500 in 2020.
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