<figure id="attachment_2873338" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2873338" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-2873338 size-full" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/5e7c9c1c-mahkamah-kota-kinabalu-240924.webp" alt="Mahkamah kota kinabalu" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2873338" class="wp-caption-text">The Kota Kinabalu sessions court ordered Abd Rasad Sadikir, 57, to serve three years in jail if he fails to pay the RM32,000 fine.</figcaption></figure>
PETALING JAYA: The headmaster of a school in Pitas, Sabah, has been slapped with a RM32,000 fine after pleading guilty to two counts of forgery and eight counts of abetting in forgery.
Kota Kinabalu sessions court judge Elsie Primus ordered Abd Rasad Sadikir, 57, to serve three years in jail if he fails to pay the amount.
Rasad was fined RM16,000 on two counts of using forged documents to obtain government aid at the state finance ministry office between April and July 2021.
The charge under Section 471 of the Penal Code is punishable by up to two years in prison, a fine, or both, upon conviction.
He was fined another RM16,000 on eight counts of abetting a contractor in submitting forged documents to obtain payments for the supply of equipment for the school.
He was charged with committing the offence between October and December 2018 at the general office of the school.
The charge was framed under Section 107(c) of the Penal Code, read with Section 471, which provides for up to seven years in prison and a fine, upon conviction.

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