Businessman faces 22 counts of faking Customs documents

JOHOR BARU: A businessman has been slapped with 11 charges and 11 alternative charges at the Sessions Court here for falsifying Customs Department documents three years ago.

Feng Seng, 68, pleaded not guilty to all 22 charges, read separately in front of Sessions judge Datuk Ahmad Kamal Arifin Ismail here on Wednesday (Oct 19).

Based on the first 11 charges, he allegedly falsified the declaration form for goods to be exported, the K2 Customs form, when he knew that the form was false.

He was charged under Section 468 of the Penal Code, which carries imprisonment of not more than seven years and a possible fine upon conviction.

For the 11 alternative charges, he was accused of submitting a fake invoice form attached along with a fake K2 Customs form to release the goods he was ferrying.

Feng was charged under Section 471 of the Penal Code, which provides a prison sentence of up to two years, a fine or both upon conviction.

He allegedly committed the offences between Aug 9, 2019 and Feb 10, 2020 at the Bangunan Sultan Iskandar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine export branch registration counter.

Ahmad Kamal Arifin then set bail at RM10,000 for all the charges with one surety and set Nov 7 for mention.

Negri Sembilan Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) deputy prosecution officer Mohammad Azriff Firdaus Mohammad Ali prosecuted the case while lawyer Mohammad Muzammil Mohammad Hairiri represented the accused.