KUANTAN, Oct 16 (Bernama) -- Two restaurant workers pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court here today to nine counts of criminal breach of trust (CBT) involving transactions totalling more than RM58,000.
Restaurant manager Siti Norsuzuanie Ali, 29, and assistant manager Muhammad Zulhilmi Ahyauddin, 24, made their pleas before Judge Sazlina Safie.
Both accused were jointly charged with committing criminal breach of trust by manipulating refund transactions in the system involving 1,199 receipts amounting to RM58,400.30 for their own use without the company’s authorisation.
The offences were allegedly committed between 9 am and 10 pm at the Nasi Kukus My Mama restaurant’s Pekan branch from January until last month.
The charges were framed under Section 408 of the Penal Code, which provides for a maximum jail term of 14 years and whipping, and the offenders may also be fined upon conviction.
Deputy public prosecutor Azizah Ahmad proposed bail of RM30,000 for each accused, with additional conditions that they not interfere with witnesses, surrender their passports to the court and report to the nearest police station every month.
However, counsel for both accused, Datuk Zaharman Zainal Abidin, appealed for a lower bail.
The court set bail at RM9,000 for each accused and approved all the additional conditions proposed by the prosecution.
The court also fixed Nov 23 for mention.
-- BERNAMA