Ex-Genneva official charged

Legal troubles: Ng faces up to two years' jail or a fine if convicted.

KUALA LUMPUR: A former Genneva business adviser has been charged with seven counts of tendering false invoices, in relation to another case involving the troubled gold investment company.

Datuk Ng Poh Weng, 64, claimed trial to tendering false documents in the form of seven invoices from Kedai Emas Polsion Sdn Bhd dated between June 15 and Nov 2, 2011.

The alleged offences occured at the Bank Negara Malaysia penthouse in Jalan Dato Onn here on Dec 20, 2012.

It was learnt that the invoices were tendered to Bank Negara in the course of investigations into Genneva for alleged money laundering.

Ng faces up to two years’ jail or a fine if convicted under Section 471 of the Penal Code for using as genuine a forged document.

DPP Nurshuhaida Zainal Azahar urged the court to set bail at RM15,000 with one surety.

She also told the court that Ng’s passport had been surrendered to another court, as part of bail conditions of another case.

Ng’s lawyer A.S. Dhaliwal did not object to the bail amount.

Judge Norsharidah Awang set bail at RM15,000 and fixed Oct 8 for case management.

Co-counsel Jason Khor told reporters although Ng was a consultant with Genneva, he was being charged in a personal capacity in this case.

On Sept 28 last year, six senior officials with Genneva Malaysia Sdn Bhd, including Ng, were charged with 926 counts of money laundering, making false statements and illegal deposit-taking involving RM5.5bil.

The RM5.5bil deposits were received by Genneva from 35,000 depositors.