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Lawyer charged with $1.2 million fraud
Published on Feb 20, 2012
Mustaffa Abu Bakar, 41.
By Elena Chong
A lawyer who has since given up practice has been charged with eight counts of misappropriating a total of $1.2 million.
Mustaffa Abu Bakar, 41, who was owner of Mustaffa & Co, was brought to court on Feb 10 to face charges of criminal breach of trust of proceeds from the sale of properties, as well as clients' money.
He faces a ninth charge of representing Madam Marlina Sa'at at a Syariah Court hearing on May 3, 2010 when he was an 'unauthorised person'.
The Straits Times understands that Mustaffa voluntarily gave up his practising certificate and dissolved his firm in January 2010.
Read the full story in Monday's edition of The Straits Times.
Mustaffa Abu Bakar, 41.
By Elena Chong
A lawyer who has since given up practice has been charged with eight counts of misappropriating a total of $1.2 million.
Mustaffa Abu Bakar, 41, who was owner of Mustaffa & Co, was brought to court on Feb 10 to face charges of criminal breach of trust of proceeds from the sale of properties, as well as clients' money.
He faces a ninth charge of representing Madam Marlina Sa'at at a Syariah Court hearing on May 3, 2010 when he was an 'unauthorised person'.
The Straits Times understands that Mustaffa voluntarily gave up his practising certificate and dissolved his firm in January 2010.
Read the full story in Monday's edition of The Straits Times.
