Ministry officer claims trial to changing land title details
09/09/2008 New Straits Times

Mohd Radzi Mohd Ramli will have his case mentioned on Oct 9.

IPOH: A 54-year-old Information Technology officer with the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry was charged at the Sessions Court here yesterday with making unauthorised changes in a land registration database.

Mohd Radzi Mohd Ramli, who was the department's technical officer, allegedly made the changes in the database of the Perak Land and Mines Department last year, changing the ownership of four plots of land and releasing two of them from their mortgages.

He claimed trial to making unauthorised updates by:

- replacing the name "Chong Chiep Bee" with "Yew Chio Chiong" as the owner of a plot of land and releasing it from a mortgage with OCBC Bank Malaysia Berhad about 3.39pm on Oct 1, 2007;

- replacing the name "Chong Chiep Bee" with "Yew Chio Chiong" as the owner of a second plot of land and releasing it from a mortgage with OCBC Bank Malaysia Berhad about 3.39pm on Oct 1, 2007;

- replacing the name of "Woo Foo Yee @ Anne Marie" with "Yew Chio Chiong" as the owner of a plot of land about 3.41pm on Oct 1, 2007; and

- changing the ownership of a plot of land belonging to Mulia Era Jaya Sdn Bhd about 3.49pm on Oct 1, 2007.

He allegedly committed the offences at the computer training room of the Perak Land and Mines Department's IT division in Ipoh.

Judge Rasidah Chik set bail at RM12,000 in one surety for all four counts, pending mention on Oct 9.