KOTA KINABALU: Three company owners, including a woman, claimed trial at the Tawau Special Corruption Court on Wednesday (Aug 9) for using false documents in their bid to obtain government maintenance projects reportedly worth RM1.1mil.
Lahama Abdul Halim and Norman Jamil, who co-own Fajar Mario Engineering, and Juhanifah Musa, owner of Raudhah Enterprise, pleaded not guilty to charges of using fake bank statements with the intention to cheat for a tender for three school projects in east coast Tawau district.
The offences were allegedly committed between April and June 2020.
Lahama, 45, was slapped with 15 charges of using forged documents under Section 471 of the Penal Code.
Norman, 42, faced nine charges of abetment under Section 109 of the Penal Code, read together with Section 471 of the same Code.
Juhanifah, 36, was also slapped with six charges of abetment that were read together with the charge of using forged documents.
Special Corruption Court judge Jason Juga allowed the accused bail of RM20,000 each and also ordered them to report to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office every two months.
The trio were also ordered to surrender their international passports and warned not to make any contact with the prosecution’s witnesses.
The court set Sept 12 for case management.
MACC's prosecution was conducted by Nurul Izzati Sapifee and Norsham Saharom while the accused were not represented.
