SIBU: A woman has been sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment by the Sessions Court here on two counts of illegal deposit-taking.
Jessy Jemu Ringer, 24, from Tatau, pleaded guilty before Sessions judge Musyiri Peet on Thursday (Sept 4).
In the first charge, she is accused of abetting a man identified only as David, who is still at large, to receive a RM23,500 deposit from a 47-year-old man.
The offence was committed at about 2.40pm on Nov 23.
For the second offence committed on Nov 21, she was accused of abetting one Chen Sheng Zheng, also still at large, to receive RM32,000 from a 51-year old woman.
The money was for an illegal online investment scheme where both victims did not receive any returns as promised.
Jessy was sentenced to eight months' jail for each offence.
The accused had collected deposits without a licence as required under Section 10 of the Financial Services Act 2013.
This contravened Section 137 (1) of the Act, constituting an offence punishable under Section 137(20 of the same Act and Section 109 of the Penal Code.
