Kota Kinabalu: A 50-year-old woman charged with three counts of producing three fake bank statements to the Sabah Education Department to get contracts to supply cooked food to a school here, will go to trial on July 5 - 6 this year.
The court set the date for one, Janifer Basalat, who has maintained her plea of not guilty.
On the first to third counts, Janifer is accused of submitting the three fake bank statements dated July 31, Aug 31, and Sept 30, 2016 under Syarikat Alam Jaguh for the purpose to obtain the tender to supply cooked food for SMK Maktab Sabah, here.
The charges stated that the tender was from March 1, 2017 until Feb 28, 2019.
Janifer allegedly produced the fake bank statements to the State Education Department, here on Nov 24, 2016.
The offence under Section 471 of the Penal Code is punishable under Section 468 of the same Code, which carries a jail term of up to two years or a fine, or both, on conviction.
The court extended the bail that had been offered to Janifer.
Meanwhile, an illegal immigrant was charged with entering the State illegally.
No plea was recorded from Dannie Lumawan Diaz after the charge was read to him via Zoom.
His case would be rementioned on March 11 and Dannie was ordered remanded further pending the date.
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