Two charged with bribing NRD officer RM17,000 for birth certificate


KUALA LUMPUR: Two people have pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here to a charge of giving a RM17,000 bribe to a registration assistant at the National Registration Department (NRD) in Putrajaya to obtain a birth certificate.

Yap Foo Siong, 57, a labourer, and Ang Lay Peng, 40, a food vendor, were jointly charged on Wednesday (March 19) with giving a cash bribe to a registration assistant of Grade KP1, as a reward for assisting in the birth certificate application process using forged supporting documents, namely the birth registration document JPN.LM01 and a birth confirmation letter.

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