It doesn’t pay to do illegal business


Costly lesson: Ng and her daughter Vera leaving the Sessions Court in George Town, Penang.

GEORGE TOWN: An Indonesian woman and her daughter have been fined RM20,000 each by a Sessions Court here after they pleaded guilty to carrying out an unlicensed money-changing business about three years ago.

Ng Siang Tjhoen, 58, and her daughter Vera Theresa, 32, who is also an Indonesian, changed their plea to guilty when their cases were brought up for mention yesterday before Judge Roslan Hamid.

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