Businessman faces 17 charges of cheating Socso of over RM800,000


KUALA LUMPUR: A businessman pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here on Tuesday (Jan 21) to 17 charges of deceiving the Social Security Organisation (Socso) over non-existent courses and training involving money totalling RM832,000, five years ago.

According to the first to 17th charges, P. Sathia Seelan, 52, is charged with duping Socso by deceiving two officers of the organisation into believing a document containing a list of attendance names and signatures of participants for three courses that were never conducted in the names of nine companies dated between Dec 7, 2020 and June 12, 2021.

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