BUTTERWORTH, Oct 8 – A company director Ooi Lee Ming, 43 had claimed the trial at the Jawi magistrate’s court on Thursday to swindling RM693,763.32 from a Lebanese food trader. Ooi had been charged with cheating Société Etablissement Michel Najjar SAL in Matn, Lebanon on Oct 9 last year.
Ooi was alleged to have intercepted Michel Najjar’s email system and impersonated as a Turkish trader with ordered Michel Najjar to transfer the amount to his Public Bank account registered at the Simpang Ampat branch. Therefore, Ooi was also charged under Section 420 of the Penal Code for cheating, which carried a penalty of maximum 10 years’ imprisonment, whipping and a fine.
In the meantime, when the charge was read out to him and he had pleaded not guilty. Besides that, the Magistrate Rashidah Baharom also set on Nov 4 for trial. Ooi was represented by his lawyer, Venodjit Singh while Siti Nor Sakinah Ibrahim prosecuted.
