Woman in jail for cheating gets another eight months imprisonment for accepting someone else's money

KUALA LUMPUR: A woman, currently serving time for cheating, was sentenced to eight months' jail by the Magistrate's Court here today for dishonestly accepting money which did not belong to her.
Magistrate Mahyuddin Mohmad Som handed down the sentence on Nur Hanisah Mohd Taib, 27, after the woman pleaded guilty to the charge.
Nur Hanisah, who has two children, was charged with accepting RM3,846 belonging to a bank officer, Nurul Syakiratul Syimma Juhari, 32, to her (Nur Hanisah) CIMB bank account at the bank's branch at Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman here between July 24 and Nov 3 last year.
She was ordered to serve the sentence from today.
The charge, under Section 424 of the Penal Code, provides an imprisonment for up to five years, or fine, or both, if found guilty.
In mitigation, Nur Hanisah said her husband was a technician with a monthly income of RM1,500 and besides their two young children, they were also supporting their parents.
Deputy public prosecutor Nur Farah Adilah Noordin, who prosecuted, said the accused would complete her current one-year jail sentence for cheating in January next year. — Bernama