Fadley Faisal

Two uniformed personnel were implicated in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday with theft of money from a bank account through an ATM machine and computer fraud.

Fadziellah bin Salleh, 37, will learn his fate on August 21, 2019 after pleading guilty to the charges in which he had stolen BND270 from a woman by withdrawing from her account through two ATM machines at different locations on May 24, 2019.

Stealing money from an account using an ATM machine invites computer fraud charges.

Presiding Magistrate Pengiran Hazirah binti Pengiran Haji Mohd Yusof responded to Fadziellah’s plea for leniency citing that he would be retiring from service of 20 years by next year.

The Magistrate said that he, being a uniformed personnel, should have not committed the offence as he holds a high standing in the public community.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Hajah ‘Adzimah Mukarramah binti Haji Salleh’s facts of the case revealed that Fadziellah had found a piece of paper while jogging around the Tutong Camp, RBAF sometime in February 2019.

He learned that the paper had a password to an online banking account. He kept it in his car and only remembered about it later when he came across it on May 24, 2019 morning. He then decided to withdraw money from the account twice and succeeded.

Abdul Rahim bin Ahmad, 31, also a uniformed personnel, pleaded guilty to the same charges.

However, he mentioned that he thought it belonged to Fadziellah’s wife and Fadziellah had her permission to use it, not knowing that Abdul Rahim had actually found access to someone else’s bank account and had stolen from it.

The Magistrate retracted the defendant’s guilty plea, released him on bail and adjourned his case to August 31, 2019 to fix trial dates.