Food delivery rider gets year’s jail, one stroke for mobile phone loan fraud

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20 Jun 2025 • 3:59 PM MYT
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 20 — The Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a food delivery rider to one year’s jail and ordered him to be given one stroke of the cane after he pleaded guilty to abetting in defrauding a woman over a loan application for a mobile phone four months ago.

Magistrate Illi Marisqa Khalizan ordered Salman Abdullah, 31, to start serving his sentence starting today.

The accused admitted to abetting a 32-year-old woman in deceiving a credit assessment officer into approving a loan application worth RM8,329 to obtain a mobile phone from a mobile phone distribution company by submitting a fake salary slip from a non-existent company and using a forged Malaysian identity card at a shopping mall on February 1.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Syafika Azwa Fikri asked the court to impose a deterrent sentence, but counsel Edwin Tomas pleaded for leniency, saying that his client has no fixed income and has to support four young children.

— Bernama

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