Bank managers, teacher among 10 charged with being members of organised crime group

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Ten people, including two bank managers and a teacher were charged at the Kota Kinabalu High Court on Friday (Sept 13) with being members of an organised crime group linked to missing funds totalling RM24.2mil from several bank accounts.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/mr34mett  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Ten people, including two bank managers and a teacher, have been charged with being members

00:07of an organized crime group linked to missing funds totaling 24.2 million ringgit from several

00:13bank accounts.

00:14They pleaded not guilty before Judge Datuk Zaleha Ros Pandin after their cases were transferred

00:19from the Kota Kinabalu Sessions Court to the High Court on Friday.

00:23They were first charged at the Sessions Court on July 25.

00:28The ten are bank managers Irene Chin, Njok Thien and Christina alias Caroline Pianus

00:33Itip, teacher T. Subramaniam, pensioners Nasir Abdul Rasid and Leong Hin Ping, self-employed

00:40Sugumaran K. Ponia, fisherman Hasran Magin, two unemployed Virionis Jonok and Mazlani

00:46Januri, and contractor Josephine J. Lankan, who's believed to be their leader.

00:51They were charged under Section 130V, Subsection 1 of the Penal Code, which carries a jail

00:57term of between 5 years and 20 years upon conviction.

01:00The court fixed November 7 for next mention.

01:04It was reported that the group had made a detailed plan to produce fake MyCard for use

01:08in banking matters and manipulated the bank's fingerprint scanner.

01:13Syndicate members on the inside identified high-value account holders as victims.

01:19The monies were taken out via bank counter-transactions, the first being conducted in April.

01:25The case came to light after a targeted account holder went to the bank to update their details.

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