BANGI:
The Bandar Baru Bangi magistrates’ court today acquitted a police corporal of two charges of forging travel allowance claim documents totalling RM3,000.
Magistrate Saira Banu Ashrof Raja ruled the prosecution had failed to establish a prima facie case against Afiq Khalid, 34, who was based at the General Operations Force’s (GOF) 4th Battalion in Semenyih.
In her ruling at the close of the prosecution’s case, Saira said the prosecution relied entirely on circumstantial evidence to link Afiq to the alleged offences but there were gaps in the evidence.
“None of the prosecution witnesses saw or could confirm that the accused himself had submitted the claim documents at the office. Moreover, no acknowledgement of receipt stamp was provided,” she said.
She said other employees also had access to the digital system used by the battalion’s financial unit, which could not identify the person who had entered the claim details.
“The investigating officer admitted in court that he did not investigate who actually entered the claims into the system and did not investigate the role of other employees in the financial unit who had access to the system,” she said.
The magistrate also found the prosecution had failed to prove that the signatures on the forms belonged to Afiq, noting that no expert report had been produced to establish this.
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