Developer charged with
collecting down payments without licence
15/ 6/2005 The Sun
SHAH ALAM: A housing developer was charged in the Sessions Court
here today with three counts of collecting down payments totalling
over RM100,000 from 17 housebuyers without a licence.
Restige Group Sdn Bhd, represented by its manager, Casey Lee,
pleaded not guilty.
On the first charge, the company is alleged to have collected
RM34,272 from six people as booking fees for houses in a housing
estate purportedly known as Taman Sri Mekar, Gombak, without a
housing developers licence between Jan 10 and 17, 2003.
It faces two more counts of collecting RM42,256 from six housebuyers
between Jan 17 and Feb 13 and another RM28,581 from five housebuyers
between Jan 30 and Feb 19 the same year at the same place.
If convicted, Restige Group faces a fine of between RM50,000 and
RM500,000 or a jail term of up to three years, or both, on each
charge under the Housing Developers Act 1966.
Nurul Liana Mamat of the Housing and Local Government Ministry
appeared for the prosecution while the company was represented by
counsel A.R.Palaya.
Judge Suraya Othman fixed June 28 for mention. |
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