Former cashier fined for making unauthorised withdrawal with customer's ATM card

KUALA LUMPUR: The cashier of a sports shop was fined RM6,000, in default eight months' jail, by the sessions court here today for unauthorised access to computer material by dishonestly withdrawing money belonging to a customer.
Judge Syed Faisal Syed Amir meted out the fine on Zuraidah Abdullah, 31, after the woman pleaded guilty to the charge.
She was charged with unauthorised possession of a Maybank ATM card belonging to housewife Malkeet Kaur, 40, and had withdrawn RM10,000 from the account through an ATM machine and spent RM184 at the shop.
The offence, under Section 4(1) of the Computer Crimes Act 1997, was committed at Sport Planet Odeon Walk, Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman here at 6pm last Oct 1.
In mitigation, Zuraidah, who was unrepresented, said she was no longer working and had two children.

Deputy public prosecutor Amira Sariaty Zainal, who prosecuted, when requesting for a punitive sentence, said the offence was serious.
"The victim was a customer at the shop and the accused, as the cashier, should be honest and responsible. She should have returned the ATM card upon completion of the transaction.
"Instead, she took advantage of it by withdrawing RM10,000 and spent RM184 to buy a pair of shoes at the place she was working," she said.
According to the facts of the case, Malkeet Kaur had made purchases at the shop using the ATM debit card, but forgot to take it back before leaving the shop.
However, she remembered leaving the card at the shop and after checking found that the accused had taken the card. — Bernama