Friday November 27, 2009
Luck runs out for ‘counterfeit couple’
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Compiled by A. RAMAN, ZANI SALLEH AND NG SI HOOI
A married couple in their 20s have been depositing counterfeit RM50 notes for the last six months, reported Kosmo.
Their modus operandi was by cutting a RM50 note in half and pasting it onto a photostat copy of the RM50 note, which is then ironed.
These counterfeit notes are then deposited into the cash deposit machine, following which the couple make withdrawals at an ATM machine the same day.
Kedah deputy police chief Datuk Asri Yusoff said the activity was done on a small scale. In mid-September, the amount of fake notes in the machine hit RM26,000, he said, adding that the couple were arrested by the police commercial crime at a house in Taman Wira in Mergong, Alor Setar, at about 8pm.
> An Australian businessman is in a dilemma when a woman whom he married in Singapore without the blessings of her parents was disallowed from seeing her, reported Harian Metro.
On top of that, another marriage is being arranged by his in-laws for his wife next January.
Najmalden Mohammad Saide, who married the lecturer of a local university, had gone to her parents’ house four days after the wedding to seek their blessings.
The parents instead chased him away and disallowed him from seeing her.
He claimed that he spent a day in the police lock-up for intrusion. He has since filed a case in the Syariah court to verify their marriage.
Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this > sign, it denotes a separate news item.
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