: An unemployed man pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate’s Court here today to a charge of using a fake honorific title on his social media profiles.
Mujeebudeen Abdul Samad, 61, is accused of using the ‘Tan Sri Dato’ unrecognised credentials on his twitter account link https://twitter.com/TSDMMujeebudeen and Facebook profile link https://www.facebook.com/1UMNO. The links were accessed and read by the Commercial Crime Investigation Office, Bukit Aman at 9 am on June 7, this year.
The charge framed under Section 3 of the Offences Relating to Awards Act 2017 and punishable under Section 3 of the same act, provides for imprisonment of up to three years.Deputy public prosecutor Wan Ahmad Hakimi Wan Jaafar prosecuted while the accused was represented by counsel Amanda Wong Yoke Ting. —