43 Factory Workers, Including Three Malaysians, Fined for Using Fake and Other People’s MyKads

JOHOR BAHRU: A total of 43 factory workers, including three Malaysians, were fined between RM1,000 and RM9,000 each at the Magistrates’ Court here today for using fake identity cards (MyKad) and copies of identity cards belonging to other individuals two days ago.

All the accused, aged between 18 and 49, pleaded guilty after the charges were read out separately before Magistrates Nurzihan Abdul Rehman, A. Shaarmini and Atifah Hazimah Wahab.

The court also ordered the accused, comprising 30 women and 13 men, to serve jail terms ranging from one to six months if they failed to pay their respective fines.

According to the charges, 35 of the accused were charged with using copies of other people’s identity cards as identification documents, while the remaining eight were charged with using fake identity cards.

They were accused of committing the offences at two separate factories in the Pasir Gudang Industrial Area and the MIEL Industrial Area in Pasir Gudang, at approximately 10 am and 8 pm respectively, two days ago.

All the accused were charged under Regulation 25(1)(e) of the National Registration Regulations 1990 (Amendment 2007), which provides for imprisonment of up to three years, a fine not exceeding RM20,000, or both upon conviction.

The prosecution was conducted by National Registration Department (NRD) prosecutors Mohd Ramzi Adnan, Md Shahedan Md Taib and Noorleelawathi Man.

Meanwhile, 10 of the accused were represented by lawyers, including Rashidah Baharom, Muhd Akmal Mazlan, Heng Wang Qianwei and Jackson Danial.

Earlier, media reports stated that the NRD had uncovered the misuse of identity documents belonging to other individuals by foreign workers seeking employment during Ops Jejak 1.0 and Ops Jejak 2.0 conducted at the factories two days ago.

UTUSAN