Kota Kinabalu: A father, son and daughter charged with cheating the Sabah Government of more than RM1.3 million by submitting fake document related to the sale of gold ingots from the mining in Bukit Mantri, Tawau, will know the outcome of their representation letter on Apr 24.
Sessions Court Judge Jason Juga set the date for Datuk Lo Fui Ming, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Wullersdorf Resources Sdn Bhd, his son Lo Teck Yong, former director of the same company, and his daughter, Lo Choon Fung, Director of Southsea Gold Sdn Bhd.
The prosecution requested a new mention date following a new development regarding the submission of the representation by defence on Wednesday.
Counsel Zahir Shah, who represented the trio, confirmed that another representation had been submitted to the head of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) legal division after the previous mention date.
Fu Ming, 69, and Teck Yong, 43, were accused of cheating the Sabah Government, namely the Department of Lands and Surveys by not reporting the quantity of gold bars and illegally selling the gold bars to a private company while knowingly causing financial losses to the state.
The charges stated that they allegedly submitted the fake documents by cheating the State Government through the Land and Surveys Department for declaring incomplete items sold in their gold mining project.
The offence was allegedly committed between 2019 and 2023 at the Land and Survey Department office, here.
Fui Ming faces 24 charges under Section 418 of the Penal Code for cheating, with knowledge that wrongful loss may ensue a person whose interest the offender is bound to protect.
Meanwhile, Teck Yong faces 24 charges under Section 109 of the Penal Code for abetting the crime. This offence carries a penalty of up to seven years' imprisonment, a fine, or both, on conviction.
Fung Ming and Choon Fung were jointly charged with four counts of using forged documents as genuine.
According to the charge sheet, both of them, had allegedly used four forged documents as genuine, namely, letters under the name Southsea Gold Sdn Bhd titled "Unauthorised Occupation Of Southsea Gold Lease Land For Mining Operations", dated March 3, 2020; Dec 10, 2020; Oct 13, 2021, and Jan 3, 2022, in which they had reason to believe that all four documents were fake.
They offences under Section 471 of the Penal Code is punishable under Section 465 of the same Act and read together with Section 34 of the same Act. It carries a penalty of up to two years' imprisonment, a fine, or both upon conviction.
Their bails had been extended pending the disposal of their cases.
MACC Prosecuting Officer Dzulkarnain Rousan Hasbi stood in for Deputy Public Prosecutor Law Chin How.
