00:00For the record, throughout 2022, a total of 29 cases of criminal breach of trust have been investigated involving a loss of RM13,013,789.44.
00:18The number of cases increased to 31 cases in 2023 involving a loss of RM33,340,324.35.
00:34Meanwhile, for 2024 until July, a total of 27 cases have been recorded with a loss of RM20,377,787.35.
00:50It is expected that the number of cases will continue to increase.
00:53On August 8, 2024, a police report was made in Selangor by a 72-year-old man who claimed to have been deceived by a law firm in Kuala Lumpur.
01:06According to the accuser, who is also an employee of a private company, on November 27, 2023, he hired a law firm in Kuala Lumpur to manage his land sales.
01:22On March 14, 2024, an agreement was signed between the accuser and the buyer for land sales in a 518-square-meter area in Batu Pahat, Johor.
01:39The agreed price was RM140,000.
01:43Next, on June 20, 2024, the buyer obtained a loan from a financial institution and a sum of RM140,000 was paid to a client account owned by a law firm appointed by the accuser.
01:59Since July 2024 until the police report was made, the accuser has not received a single payment from the lawyer.
02:09Later that night, on July 20, 2024, the accuser received two cheques from the lawyer appointed as payment for the sale of the land.
02:21However, both cheques were rejected by the bank on the grounds that there was a transfer to the cheque.
02:30The investigation is under Section 409 of the Penal Code.
02:36For the second case, it is a breach of criminal law involving a loss of RM833,473.75.
02:47A police report was made on August 6, 2024, in Johor by a 51-year-old man against a law firm claimed to have cheated the accuser in the management of the company's insurance payments.
03:05According to the accuser, who is a landlord, in 2013, the company had appointed a law firm as a debt holder for the receipt of the service fees of the accuser's clients.
03:22For this purpose, a Maybank account has been opened under the name of the law firm and all the money received from its clients amounting to RM833,473.75 has been deposited into the account.
03:41In 2017, the accuser was investigated and charged by the Malaysian Crime Prevention Agency, SBRM, and the money in the Maybank account was also frozen.
03:55However, on May 20, 2024, the accuser was released from the SBRM indictment by the court of appeals and the RM833,473.75 was returned to the accuser.
04:15In June 2024, the accuser made a claim to the court of appeals to return the money, but they failed to do so.
04:28According to the accuser, in July 2024, the accused lawyer met with him and informed him that he was facing financial problems.
04:40The accused lawyer said that he would use the money to evade the house of the accused lawyer from Dilelo.
04:49He said that the money received from the accuser's claim was no longer in the account and was believed to be used for the personal interest of the accused lawyer.
05:01The case is being investigated under Section 409 of the Penal Code.
05:07So, in summary, the number of cases filed by the accused may be small compared to the total number of accused lawyers registered.
05:18This is not to say that it is all at once, but only a small fraction.
05:23However, the value of the losses recorded for each case is very large.
05:29Therefore, the PDRN always sees this issue as a serious issue and the effort is necessary to prevent such cases from happening again.
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