Retired civil servant pleads guilty to cheating businessman

Former Public Works Department employee Ahmad Zainuddin Bontak being led to the Ipoh Sessions Court room to be charged under Section 415 of the Penal Code for cheating

IPOH: A retired Public Works Department (JKR) staff member has pleaded guilty to a charge of cheating a businessman of about RM30,000 in 2012.

Ahmad Zainuddin Bontak, who was then a general assistant with JKR's mechanical branch, was ordered by Sessions Court Judge Ahmad Kamar Jamaludin to pay a RM30,000 fine in default three months jail after being found guilty on Wednesday (Jan 24).