Kota Kinabalu: A 36-year-old man was fined RM4,500 or six months’ jail by the Magistrate’s Court here on Friday for using a forged payment receipt to obtain an iPhone from a seller at a shopping mall.
Choo Yu Ping pleaded guilty before Magistrate Dzul Elmy Yunus to dishonestly using as genuine a Hong Leong Bank payment receipt for RM4,500 dated Jan 28, 2025, at 8pm, on Jan 28, this year at Imago Shopping Mall.
The charge stated that Choo knew the receipt was fake.
The offence falls under Section 471 of the Penal Code and is punishable under Section 465, which provides for up to two years’ jail, or a fine, or both, on conviction.
The court heard from the prosecution that the complainant, a 23-year-old woman, was at home at 9.30pm, on Jan 22, 2025 when she negotiated via Facebook to sell her iPhone Plus.
A buyer agreed to the deal and later met the complainant in front of Loft E at Imago.
A man, later identified as Choo, showed the complainant a bank payment receipt for RM4,500 before walking off with the phone.
The complainant later checked her bank account and found that no money had been credited.
Feeling cheated, she lodged a police report.
In a separate case, a 36-year-old woman was fined RM1,200 or jailed three months for gambling in a public place.
Siti Roaini Ali pleaded guilty to committing the offence at 2.15pm, on Sept 15, this year, at the front of a shop, next to the Vape Addict premises at Cyber Square, near here.
The prosecution told the court that a police team had checked the premises and noticed Siti acting suspiciously while holding a mobile phone.
After identifying themselves with their police authority cards, the officers arrested her and seized a phone together with RM93 in mixed notes, used for online top-up gambling.
Siti admitted to gambling online using her mobile phone.
A gambling expert confirmed that the device contained online gambling applications.
Siti was charged under Section 7(2) of the Common Gaming Houses Act 1953, which carries a fine of up to RM5,000, or up to six months’ jail, or both, on conviction.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Kareena Kaur Gill Karamjit Singh prosecuted.
