23-04-2025
Woman jailed, fined for using forged documents to get birth certs
KUALA LUMPUR: An unemployed woman was jailed a day and fined RM10,000 by the Sessions Court today for providing false information to obtain birth certificates from the National Registration Department.
Judge Azura Alwi meted out the sentence on Wong Yee Lin after she pleaded guilty to the charge.
The judge ordered Wong to serve five months in jail if she failed to pay the fine.
Wong had admitted to submitting birth registration forms which contained false details about the babies' birth confirmation by a hospital to the NRD for the issuance of a certificate.
However, there were no birth records of the babies at the hospital.
She had committed the offences from 2015 to 2023.
The charge was framed under Section 471 of the Penal Code.
On April 16, 14 persons, including three women, were remanded by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to assist in investigations into the submission of false birth registration forms.
Aged between 28 and 49, they were believed to have applied for identity cards and birth certificates for children at the NRD.
It was done through forms which contained false statements regarding the confirmation of the births, despite there being no hospital records of the said births.
In March, MACC said it detained 16 people suspected of involvement in bribery related to the registration of late births, involving the change of non-citizen status to citizen status, as well as the use of false supporting documents for birth registrations.
MACC deputy chief commissioner (operations) Datuk Seri Ahmad Khusairi Yahaya had said all suspects, aged between their 20s and 70s, were arrested under Op Outlander and Op Birth, which targeted several premises, including clinics and law firms in the Klang Valley and Johor.
He had said the raids were carried out following nearly a year of intelligence gathering by MACC and the NRD.
