Housewife charged with money laundering of RM90,000

Housewife Nursuhara is accused of accepting proceeds from an illegal activity through her RHB Bank account.

SHAH ALAM: A housewife, who has four children, was today charged in the Sessions Court here with money laundering involving RM90,000 two years ago.

Nursuhara Ismail, 37, pleaded not guilty after the charge was read by the court interpreter before Judge Zamri Bakar.

She was accused of accepting the proceeds from an illegal activity through her RHB Bank account from the victim, Maimunah Dollah, 44.

The accused committed the offence at the RHB Bank branch in Sungai Buloh in Jalan Public, Kampung Baru Sungai Buloh, near here on July 14, 2014.

If convicted, she could be fined up to RM5 million or jailed up to five years or both under subsection 4(1)(a) of the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Khairul Fikrie Ahmad Zubaidi proposed bail of RM10,000 and requested that the case be jointly tried with two other cases which involved the same transactions, victim and prosecution witnesses in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court.

Nursuhara, however, appealed for lesser bail on the grounds that she only had RM2,000 as her husband, a steel factory worker, was only earning RM1,000 a month.

Zamri set bail at RM6,000 in one surety and allowed the case to be tried at the Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur.

In September and October last year, a man, S Baitumalai, and a factory supervisor, Siew Ooi Nguk, claimed trial on charges of money laundering involving RM264,000 and RM19,750 respectively, involving the same victim.

– BERNAMA