Apr.10, 2010
KUALA LUMPUR: A freelance consultant was sentenced to three years’ jail and two strokes of the rotan by the Sessions Court after he pleaded guilty to a slew of financial misdeeds.
The wrongdoings included misusing fake documents, 11 charges of money-laundering and two charges of criminal breach of trust.
Md Sukor Razali, 45, from Pandan Jaya had earlier claimed trial to the charges but changed his plea before judge Rozana Ali Yusoff.
The consultant from Oberthur Card Systems (M) Sdn Bhd had owned, disposed of and used money totalling RM2.3mil from the company to buy a cashier’s order and transferred it into three accounts of different companies – an offence under Section 4(1)(a) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Finan cing Act 2001.
He committed the offences at Al-Rajhi Banking and Investment Corporation (M) Bhd at Wisma Selangor Dredging in Jalan Ampang here between March 13 and May 27, 2008.
Md Sukor also pleaded guilty to two charges of criminal breach of trust involving nine cheques amounting to RM3mil that were entrusted to him by Oberthur, an offence under Section 409 of the Penal Code.
He also pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 471 of the Penal Code for using a fake document to open another current bank account for Oberthur.
He committed all three offences at Al-Rajhi Bank main branch at Wisma Selangor Dredging between Feb 26 and March 28, 2008.
Defence counsel Azman Zakaria said during mitigation that the accused was a father of four children aged eight to 16 years, and was the sole breadwinner for the family.
He added that Md Sukor had saved the court’s time by pleading guilty after five prosecution witnesses were called to testify.
Rozana ordered the accused to serve jail time for 11 charges of money-laundering concurrently.
The sentence for money-laundering is to be carried out after Md Sukor has served time for the criminal breach of trust and fake document offences totalling two years in jail and two strokes of the rotan.
DPP Mohd Farez Rahman prosecuted for the money-laundering charges, while DPP Hamidi Mohd Noh prosecuted for the other charges.