Jailed for faking identity

Off to jail: The accused being escorted out of the courtroom after admitting to using someone else’s MyKad to get both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.

KOTA KINABALU: A foreign woman has been jailed a year after admitting to using a copy of another person’s MyKad to get two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine in Lahad Datu.

The accused pleaded guilty at a Magistrate’s Court to three charges under Regulations 25 (1) (e) and (o) of the National Registration Regulations 1990 (Amendment 2007) of using and possessing other people’s identity cards.