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Shingen Takeda
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Published: Friday December 3, 2010 MYT 11:02:00 AM
Updated: Friday December 3, 2010 MYT 8:17:47 PM
Singaporean woman charged with cheating RHB founder (Updated)
By LISA GOH
SHAH ALAM: A 49-year-old Singaporean business woman claimed trial at the Sessions Court here to two counts of cheating, including one count of cheating RHB Bank founder Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Hussain of RM7mil. Sharida Abdul Majid pleaded not guilty to both charges before judge Wan Mohd Norisham Wan Yaakob here Friday.
In the first charge, she was accused of deceitfully using two false High Motivations Sdn Bhd’s cash bills as genuine, having reason to believe they were false, which amounted to an offence under Section 471 of the Penal Code. She was said to have done so at Peremba Square, Saujana Resort, here, between Oct 2 and Oct 26, last year.
In the second charge, she was accused of cheating Abdul Rashid by causing him to believe that she had obtained a “gift contract” worth not less than RM19.2mil, and had offered him to join in carrying out the contract.
She was said to have led him to hand over RM7mil through three Standard Chartered cheques as his contribution in the contract, between September and November last year, where he would not have done so otherwise. During mitigation for bail, lawyer Mohd Azfar Abdullah told the court that he could not represent her further as he was her ex-husband. They have four children and that she has lived in Malaysia for at least 30 years.
Deputy public prosecutor Nurshuhaida Zainal Azahar, however, said that bail should be fixed at a reasonable amount, as the monies stated in the charge was very high. The court granted her bail at RM500,000 in two Malaysian sureties, and ordered her to surrender her passport to the court and set Jan 7 next year for mention.
