KUALA LUMPUR: An owner of a cosmetic company pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here on Wednesday (Oct 4) to seven charges of submitting false documents to claim incentives amounting to more than RM120,000 under the Penjana Kerjaya programme two years ago.
Mona Liza Ahmad, 38, was charged with submitting seven documents which contained false information, namely the Employee Verification Forms in the name of her company, Nona Chantique Empire, to claim incentives amounting to RM120,060 under the programme.
The documents for the incentive claims, purportedly for 30 employees of her company, when in fact they were not, were submitted to two officers of the Social Security Organisation (Socso) Nursofieyana Muhammad Zamri and Mira Sabriena Romain with the intention of deceiving Socso.
The offence was committed at Wisma Perkeso, Jalan Tun Razak, here, on May 31, 2021.
The charge, under Section 18 of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act 2009, provides a maximum prison sentence of 20 years and a fine of not less than five times the amount or value of the false claim or RM10,000, whichever is higher, if convicted.
Mona Liza was also charged with five alternative charges of using as genuine seven "Borang Pengesahan Pekerja Program Insentif Pengambilan Pekerja" which contained false information to claim the same amount of incentives (RM120,060) under the Penjana Kerjaya programme.
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