Uzbekistani who used another woman's IC to get medical treatment at HKL jailed three years


KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): A single mother from Uzbekistan has been jailed for three years by the Magistrate's Court here for cheating the Kuala Lumpur Hospital (HKL) by using an identity card belonging to another person to obtain treatment at the hospital for seven years.

Arslanova Oksana Leonidovna, 39, had passed herself off as Kerinjeet Kaur Tharam Singh, 48, using a copy of an identity card bearing the name of Kerinjeet Kaur, to seek treatment at the hospital at 10am, on Dec 31, last year.

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