KUALA LUMPUR, March 15 — A financial consultant was again charged in the Magistrate’s Court here, this time with swindling RM339,000 from a man in a non-existent Islamic hotel lease investment scheme.

Ahmad Amiruddin Mohamed, 46, however, pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to him before Magistrate Ahmad Solihin Abd Wahid.

Ahmad Amiruddin is alleged to have swindled the money from Syafiee Tarmidi, 32, by tricking the victim to invest the money in his company, AAM Global Corporation Sdn Bhd, which he said to have been involved in hotel lease investment, which was non-existent.

He is accused of dishonestly inducing the victim to deposit RM339,000 into his Maybank account in stages at the Maybank branch in Jalan Kampar, Sentul here, between August 7, 2015, and July 28, 2016.

The court allowed the accused bail of RM3,000 in one surety and fixed April 7 for mention.

Deputy public prosecutor Noorelynna Hanim Abd Halim prosecuted while lawyer Aizul Rohan Anuar represented Ahmad Amiruddin. 

On February 23, Ahmad Amiruddin was charged in the Selayang Magistrate’s Court with two counts of misappropriation of money amounting to RM691,000 as investment for the lease of the hotel and for commodity trading.

On February 24, he was charged in three Magistrate’s Courts in Ampang with seven counts of misappropriating RM830,000 for the hotel lease investment and commodity trading. — Bernama