Businessman claims trial to submitting false claims worth RM1.12 mil

MELAKA – A businessman was today charged at the Ayer Keroh sessions court here with three counts of submitting false claims to the Social Security Organisation (Socso) for PenjanaKerjaya 2.0 incentives, involving a sum of RM1,123,030.

The accused, Mohd Eszahar Mansor, 38, pleaded not guilty when the charges were read out before judge Elesabet Paya Wan.

For the first charge, Eszahar, with the intention of deceiving the Melaka Socso employment service officer, Nurshahera Nordin, produced the names of 19 individuals, purportedly employees of Eszahar Maju Enterprise, into the PenjanaKerjaya 1.0 system at Melaka Socso’s employment service officer unit on October 10, 2020.