IPOH: A former company director has been charged at the Sessions Court here today with 64 counts of misappropriation, forgery and use of forged bank cheques totalling RM10.56 million.
Ooi Yee Ling, 46, a former director and shareholder of Syarikat Amani Cergas Bhd, pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to her in Cantonese before judge Ainul Shahrin Mohamad.
Two charges were made under Section 403 of the Penal Code; 31 charges were under Section 467 of the Penal Code, while the remaining 31 charges were under Section 471/467 of the same Code.
For the two offences under Section 403, Ooi was accused of misusing bank cheques belonging to one Chan Chee Seng for her interest, fraudulently.
The offence under this section carries a maximum of 5 years' jail with whipping and is also punishable by a fine if convicted.
Meanwhile, for Section 467 and Section 471/467, Ooi faced 62 charges of forging bank cheques belonging to Chan at her company in Loyal Garden Residence, Jalan Sultan Nazrin Shah here, as well as fraudulently using the forged cheques as genuine.
The offence under Section 471 of the Penal Code, also read under Section 467, carries a jail sentence of up to 20 years and a fine upon conviction.
All the offences were carried out between Nov 17, 2017, and Feb 8, 2018, at several banks in Ipoh.
In the same court, Ooi was also jointly charged with the company's consultant Yee Yat Kai, 64 with four charges of falsifying documents under Section 467 and Section 471/467 of the Penal Code.
The duo pleaded not guilty to the four charges.
Deputy public prosecutor Faten Hadni Khairuddin requested the court to set bail at RM600,000 and RM200,000 for Ooi and Yee, respectively.
During mitigation, lawyer Kenzaly Goik, who represented Ooi and Yee, requested a lower amount of bail as Ooi's clothing business was badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and she had no fixed income.
Meanwhile, Yee, an insurance agent, said he did not have a fixed income and suffered from hypertension and high cholesterol.
Ainul Shahrin set RM60,000 bail for Ooi for all charges, while bail for Yee was fixed at RM20,000.
The court set Aug 19 for mention.