Kuala Lumpur: A delivery driver has been sentenced to one year in prison by the magistrates’ court for conspiring with an accomplice to defraud a bank into approving a micro loan to purchase a phone.
Magistrate Illi Marisqa Khalizan also sentenced Salman Abdullah to one stroke of the rotan after he pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 420 of the Penal Code involving cheating and dishonestly inducing the delivery of property.
She also ordered that his jail sentence begin immediately.
The offence took place on Feb 1 at the bank’s Jalan Peel branch, where Salman conspired with a 32-year-old woman to deceive a bank officer into approving a loan for RM8,329 for the purchase of an iPhone 16 Pro.
Salman admitted to submitting falsified identity card details and forged payslips as supporting documents.
Earlier, lawyer Edwin Tomas from the National Legal Aid Foundation told the court that Salman was remorseful of his action.
He said Salman is currently serving jail time for another offence in Kajang prison.
Deputy public prosecutor Syafika Azwa Fikri urged the court to impose a deterrent sentence.
