KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 18 — A former operations director of the Genius E-Learning Programme’s Education and Welfare Fund (Fund) was today jailed one day and fined RM10,000 by the Sessions Court here for cheating the owner of a company with regards to a tax exemption eligibility.
Judge Mohd Nasir Nordin passed the sentence after Hishamsol Othman, 43, changed his plea to guilty, at the case mention today.
The court ordered the fine in default of six months’ jail. Hishamsol paid the fine.
Hishamsol was accused of cheating Ng Suat Hon, 58, the owner of Zamrud Enterprise, by deceiving him into donating RM200,000 to the Fund in order to obtain a purported tax exemption from the Inland Revenue Board (LHDN) dated October 25 2007 despite knowing that the company was not eligible for it.
He committed the offence at the Fund’s office at Bangunan MAS, Jalan Sultan Ismail here at 2pm on November 30, 2007.
The prosecution was conducted by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission deputy public prosecutor Wong Poi Yoke under Section 417 of the Penal Code.
According to the facts of the case, on November 30, 2007 Hishamsol had cheated Ng into believing that a RM200,000 donation to the Fund would entitle Zamrud Enterprise to a tax exemption from LHDN, whereas the board had revoked its tax exemption status prior to that date.
Hishamsol, who also faced a conspiracy charge with the Fund’s former chief executive Raja Azman Shah Raja Alang Petra of cheating two directors and a company owner to invest in the Fund, was represented by lawyer Faisal Mohd Hanafiah. — Bernama
