Food delivery rider gets year's jail, one stroke for mobile phone loan fraud
Magistrate Illi Marisqa Khalizan ordered Salman Abdullah, 31, to start serving his sentence from today.
Salman admitted to abetting a 32-year-old woman in deceiving a credit assessment officer into approving a loan application worth RM8,329 to obtain a mobile phone from a mobile phone distribution company by submitting a fake salary slip from a non-existent company and using a forged Malaysian identity card at a shopping mall on Feb 1.
DPP Syafika Azwa Fikri asked the court to impose a deterrent sentence, but counsel Edwin Tomas pleaded for leniency, saying that his client has no fixed income and has to support four young children.
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