SIBU: Three mule account owners of Macau scam syndicates here were each fined RM500 in default seven days jail by the Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday (Jan 19).
The accused are Noor Fazeelah Omar, 36, from Petaling Jaya; Nurul Ashikin Mahmood, 25, from Selangor and Wong Lee Zee, 29, from Kuala Lumpur.
They were charged under Section 37 (1) of the Sarawak Minor Offences Ordinance 1958.
The offence of illegally obtaining money through their accounts from three separate fraud cases carries a three-month jail sentence and a fine of RM500.
The complainants in all three cases are all locals.
In the first case, a 26-year-old man on November 20 last year was scammed into transferring RM5,316 to Noor Fazeelah’s account number as a processing fee in a non-existent loan scheme.
The second case involved a 36-year-old man who on March 11, 2019, transferred RM9,200 to two bank account numbers for ‘the police’ to investigate a case of his name being used in drug-related activities.
Of that amount, RM4,200 was in Nurul Ashikin’s account which she withdrew immediately.
In the third case, a 68-year-old woman on March 2 last year, was tricked into paying RM29,850 to an account belonging to Wong to free her son from a non-existent drug-related crime.
All three of the accused opted to pay their fines.
