Lawyer denies cheating his client


KUALA LUMPUR: A lawyer found himself on the wrong side of the dock when he was charged with cheating and embezzling from his client in a RM9mil land deal.

How Chee Hong, 48, claimed trial to misappropriating RM9,056,124 meant as a deposit to purchase a plot of land in the Kuala Lumpur district.

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