Man's 14 charges of forging cheques are consolidated
Published on: Friday, November 28, 2014
KOTA KINABALU: The Sessions Court on Thursday granted an application for 14 charges of falsifying cheques for RM322,421.09 faced by a local Brunei to be consolidated.Judge Indra Ayub made the decision on Wan Junaidy Ab Majid, 30, when 12 of the charges previously brought before two other Sessions Courts were transferred to Indra's court on Thursday.Indra then fixed Dec 9 for pre-trial case management and Jan 20 next year to hear the cases.
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During previous proceedings, counsel Goldam Hamid, who represented Wan, applied for the cases to be consolidated.Junaidy is accused of forging 14 cheques by changing the amount on each cheque which caused losses to Syarikat Jurutera Raja at the UOB Bank in Jalan Gaya, here, between March 2011 and February 2013.He allegedly changed the cheques as follows: First count dated June 29, 2011 (RM21,529.80), second count dated Sept 19, 2011 (RM23,000), third count dated June 28, 2012 (RM29,764.05), fourth count dated July 20, 2012 (RM22,000), fifth count dated July 27, 2011 (RM29,726.45), sixth count dated Aug 29, 2012 (RM21,400), seventh count dated Sept 20, 2012 (RM23,500), eighth count dated Sept 27, 2012 (RM29,547.79), ninth count dated Jan 16, 2013 (RM22,153), tenth count dated Feb 4, 2013 (RM21,500), eleventh count - cheque dated March 29, 2011 (RM31,400, twelfth count -cheque dated April 28, 2011 (RM4,400), thirteenth count - cheque dated May 10, 2011 (RM21,000) and fourteenth count - cheque dated May 25, 2011 (RM21,500).Each count framed under Section 467 of the Penal Code carries a jail term of up to 20 years and fine, on conviction.
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