A public servant was sentenced to three years in jail on Saturday for using forged documents and cheating a company.
Mohd Salihin bin Abdullah Gampar, 53, first denied the charges but was found guilty and convicted after a trial.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Qamarul Affyian bin Abdul Rahman called nine witnesses and produced 30 documentary evidence to prove the prosecution’s case beyond the court’s reasonable doubt.
The defendant, represented by defence counsel Ahmad Basuni Abbas from Messrs Abrahams Davidson and Co, denied the charges throughout the trial, stating that he had been unaware of any dealings with the company.
However, Intermediate Court Judge Harnita Zelda Skinner disbelieved the defendant and found him “unreliable” and his evidence in defence “untruthful”.
The court’s findings included the fact that the defendant was aware that the documents he used were forged, and being the head in charge of all four districts of the Public Works Department’s store unit, it is “hard to believe that he was unaware of any prior dealings”.
“The defendant has led (the company) to proceed with the orders to deceive him that the Public Works Department requires it,” the court found.
The first charge states that the defendant had used 10 documents on February 10, 2016 under the Public Works Department which had been forged as ‘Letter of Acceptance of a Quotation’.
In the second charge, on the same date, the defendant cheated a company by issuing the letters to say that the department had accepted the company’s offer to supply printer toner cartridges. – Fadley Faisal
