KOTA KINABALU: A hostel supervisor of a secondary school in the Sandakan district has been fined RM30,000 by a Special Corruption Court for using forged invoices to claim payments for the supply of food and other items.
Hermansah Masari, 36, pleaded guilty to three counts of the offence before judge Jason Anak Juga on Thursday (July 13).
The court fined the accused RM10,000, or in default eight months' imprisonment, for each charge.
Hermansah was accused of committing the offences in 2016 and 2017, using the fake documents to claim a total of RM14,300.
For the first count, he was accused of conspiring with another individual to dishonestly use an invoice or cash bill for a students' Hari Raya event they knew to be fake as a genuine document to claim RM6,000 at SK Karamunting on July 14, 2017.
On the second count, the accused was charged with the same offence to claim RM5,000 as payment to supply equipment for a camping programme for the same school on March 17, 2017.
Hermansah, on the third count, was accused of conspiring with another individual to using another fake invoice to claim RM3,300 as payment to supply items for a leadership programme organised by the school on Dec 23, 2016.
The charges were framed under Section 471 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 465 of the same law, to be read together with Section 109 of the same Code.
It provides for a maximum two-year jail sentence or fine, or both, on conviction.
The accused later settled the RM30,000 fine at the court on the same day.
Prosecuting officer Dzulkarnain Rousan Hasbi appeared for the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) while the accused was not represented.
