Fined $2,000 for stealing ATM card, $1,200
By Rol Ezam

Bandar Seri Begawan - A 29-year-old unemployed local woman was fined $2,000 or serve 4 months’ imprisonment if default of payment after she pleaded guilty to committing theft of cash and stealing one Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card with the ATM pin card number.

Miko binti Ishak admitted to withdrawing a total of $1,200 from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank ATM at a building in Jalan Maulana, Seria, nearly two years ago after she found an ATM card inside a bag.

The prosecuting officer said the defendant went out shopping in Tutong with her Chinese friend before they went to Seria Plaza in the afternoon of the same day intending to go to the salon.

In the car on their way there, her friend complained that the zipper of her bag was damaged and she decided to throw the bag away. As they reached Seria Plaza, her friend then got out of the car and asked the defendant to throw the bag for her.

The defendant then went to the back alley of Seria Plaza where the dumpsters were located, the prosecutor said. Before she threw the bag, she checked the bag again and found the HSBC ATM card with the pin number.

Not long after that, the defendant went to the nearby ATM and tried the card with its pin number to make a withdrawal. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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