Salon worker faces more cheating charges

KOTA KINABALU: A salon worker, who had claimed trial to dishonestly hiding another person’s money in his bank account, faced similar cheating charges at the Magistrate’s Court here yesterday.

Jesper Daniel, 28, pleaded not guilty to the two charges which were read to him before magistrate Afiq Agoes.

On the first count, the accused had allegedly hid RM580 belonging to a man in an account registered under the accused’s name at a bank branch here at 7am on September 8, 2016.

The alleged offence was framed under Section 424 of the Penal Code which carries a jail term of up to five years, or a fine, or both, upon conviction.

The second charge accused Jesper of deceiving another man into believing that he was the real owner of a Perodua MyVi car and induced the victim to give him RM4,950 as a deposit purchasing payment in front of a bank branch near a university here between October 12 and 15, 2016.

The charge was made under Section 420 of the Penal Code which is punishable by a jail term of up to 10 years’ and whipping and also liable to a fine, upon conviction.

The magistrate fixed February 22 for his case management and the accused was ordered to be further held in custody, pending disposal of his cases.

On February 7, the accused had claimed trial to two charges of fraudulently hiding two persons’ cash in his bank account.

The two charges accused Jesper of keeping the cash of RM580 and RM400 belonging to two victims, respectively, of which the accused was aware that the cash was not his.

The offences were allegedly committed at a bank and hotel here at 3.11pm and 1.13pm on November 28, 2016 and March 3, 2017, respectively.

Prosecuting officer Inspector Mohd Rasydan Jasni objected to bail on the grounds that the accused also faced several charges involving commercial crime offences.