BINTULU: A business owner and a pre-school student management assistant claimed trial in the Sessions Court here to eight counts of falsifying documents between 2015 and 2016.
The accused Malik Ibrahim, 49, and Erlina Zulkifli, 40, pleaded not guilty to all of the charges read before Judge Steve Ritikos yesterday.
According to the charge, both of them were accused with common intent of using fake invoices as supporting documents for a claim related to the supply of raw dormitory food to SK Kuala Kebulu in 2015 and 2016, involving a sum of RM52,514.
They are charged under Section 471 of the Penal Code, read together with Section 34 of the same Code, for fraudulently or dishonestly using as genuine any document which one knows or has reason to believe to be a forged document.
If convicted, the Section provides for a jail term of up two years or a fine or both.
The court has set the date of case re-mention to May 11, this year.
The prosecution was handled by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) deputy prosecutor Nur Nisla Abd Latif while, Malik and Erlina were unrepresented by counsel.
