{"id":59370,"date":"2020-01-22T15:31:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T07:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59370"},"modified":"2020-01-22T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T07:52:06","slug":"former-sabah-mcmc-deputy-director-charged-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59370","title":{"rendered":"Former Sabah MCMC deputy director charged for misappropriating funds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KOTA KINABALU, Jan 22&nbsp;(Bernama) &#8212; Former deputy director of Sabah chapter of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) was charged at the Special Corruption Court here today with six&nbsp;counts of dishonest misappropriation of property totalling RM17,930.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 41-year-old woman, however, pleaded not guilty and claimed trial to all charges after they were read out before Judge Abu Bakar Manat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was alleged to have misappropriated&nbsp;RM17,930 involving payments under the memorandum for budget requisition to facilitate and organise&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>Klik Dengan Bijak<\/em>&nbsp;programme with six schools in Sabah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The offences were allegedly committed at Level 10, Menara MAA, MCMC, between Jan 15&nbsp; and Feb 27,&nbsp;2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was charged under Section\u00a0403 of the Penal Code which carries a maximum jail term of five years and with whipping, and shall also be liable to fine if convicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judge has ordered her name not to be published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman also pleaded not guilty to six alternative charges under Section 18 of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act for providing false claims at the same time and place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MACC prosecuting officer Michael Joimin prosecuted, while the accused was represented by lawyer Mohd Fareez Mohammad Salleh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court allowed the accused bail of RM10,000 with one surety and ordered her to report to MACC office twice monthly and also to surrender her passport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feb 28 was set for remention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU, Jan 22&nbsp;(Bernama) &#8212; Former deputy director of Sabah chapter of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) was charged at the Special Corruption Court here today with six&nbsp;counts of dishonest misappropriation of property totalling RM17,930. The 41-year-old woman, however, pleaded not guilty and claimed trial to all charges after they were read out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59370"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}