Forty-three people, including three Malaysians, were fined between RM1,000 and RM9,000 by three Johor Bahru Magistrates’ Courts for identity card offences.
JOHOR BAHRU: A total of 43 individuals, including three Malaysians, were fined between RM1,000 and RM9,000 by three Magistrates’ Courts here today for using forged identity cards or copies of identity cards belonging to other people.
Of the total, 35 were charged with using copies of other people’s identity cards, while the remaining eight were charged with using forged identity cards as personal identification documents.
The accused, aged between 18 and 49, comprised three Malaysians and foreign nationals from Indonesia and the Philippines.
They were sentenced after pleading guilty to the charges, which were read out separately before Magistrates Nurzihan Abdul Rehman, A. Shaarmini and Atifah Hazimah Wahab.
The courts also ordered them to serve jail terms ranging from one to six months if they failed to pay their respective fines.
The offences were committed at two factories, Gorin Technical Industry (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and Masimo Medical Technologies (M) Sdn Bhd, located in the MIEL and Pasir Gudang industrial areas, between 10 am and 8 pm on Oct 20.
The charges were framed under Regulation 25(1)(e) of the National Registration Regulations 1990 (2007 Amendment), which provides for a maximum jail term of three years, a fine of up to RM20,000, or both upon conviction.
The prosecution was conducted by National Registration Department (NRD) prosecuting officers Mohd Ramzi Adnan, Noorleelawathi Man and Md Shahedan Md Taib.
Ten of the accused were represented by lawyers Amir Haikal, Jackson Danial, Heng Wang Qian Wei, Rashidah Baharom and Muhd Akmal Mazlan, while the remaining accused were unrepresented.