KLANG: A personal driver to a businessman was charged in the Magistrate’s Court here yesterday with 484 counts of assisting to transfer stolen cash involving more than RM600,000.
Saidina Azzuanira Saidina Othman, 43, claimed trial to all the charges, which took the court interpreter about one hour to read out to him.
The accused allegedly assisted in transferring stolen money totaling RM643,897.42 to his own company, Mai Trading’s bank account at the Hong Leong Bank Bhd’s Port Klang branch here between Jan 3, 2012 and Jan 30, 2013.
In June last year, his wife, Mai Shahira Ishak, 37, a former accounts executive with a logistics company was charged in the Shah Alam Sessions Court with 489 counts of criminal breach of trust (CBT) involving a cheque worth RM647,445.37 that belonged to her former employer. Magistrate Mohd Fadhly Yaacob disallowed bail and ordered Saidina Azzuanira’s case to be transferred to the Shah Alam Sessions Court and heard jointly with his wife’s CBT case. The sessions court has set today (May 15) for trial.
If convicted, Saidina Azzuanira who was unrepresented, faces a maximum seven years’ jail and fine on each of the charge, framed under Section 414 of the Penal Code.
Deputy public prosecutor Mahmoodah Abdul Latiff appeared for the prosecution. — Bernama