The three charges preferred against the accused in the Sessions Court at Melaka are as follows:

First Charge:

Bahawa kamu pada 4 November 1994, lebih kurang jam 12.40 malam, di Seng

Huat & Co, No 209, Jalan Laksamana Cheng Ho, di dalam daerah Melaka

Tengah, di Negeri Melaka, didapati memiliki suratan cagaran berharga

yang palsu iaitu sekeping kad kredit Citibank Preferred Mastercard No

5279-7815-2023-5001 atas nama PT Poon iaitu satu suratan dari jenis

yang tersebut di dalam s 467 Kanun Keseksaan (NMB Bab 45), dengan

pengetahuan yang suratan itu adalah palsu dan dengan maksud supaya

suratan itu digunakan dengan curangnya sebagai tulen dan dengan itu

kamu telah melakukan satu kesalahan yang boleh dihukum di bawah s 474

Kanun Keseksaan.

Second Charge:

Bahawa kamu pada 4 November 1994, lebih kurang jam 12.40 malam, di Seng

Huat & Co, No 209 Jalan Laksamana Cheng Ho, di dalam daerah Melaka

Tengah, di Negeri Melaka, didapati memiliki suratan cagaran berharga

yang palsu iaitu sekeping kad kredit National Westminster Bank Access

Mastercard No 5400-6800-3003-0831 atas nama Tan Soon Meng iaitu satu

suratan dari jenis yang tersebut dalam s 467 Kanun Keseksaan, dengan

pengetahuan yang suratan itu adalah palsu dan dengan maksud supaya

suratan itu digunakan sebagai tulen dan dengan itu kamu telah melakukan

satu kesalahan yang boleh dihukum di bawah s 474 Kanun Keseksaan.

Third Charge:

Bahawa kamu pada 4 November 1994, lebih kurang jam 12.40 malam, di Seng

Huat & Co, No 209, Jalan Laksamana Cheng Ho, di dalam daerah Melaka

Tengah, di Negeri Melaka, didapati memiliki suratan cagaran berharga

yang palsu iaitu sekeping kad kredit Citibank Classic Mastercard No

5420-3272-0200-3180 atas nama Wong Kah Meng iaitu satu suratan dari

jenis yang tersebut dalam s 467 Kanun Keseksaan, dengan pengetahuan

yang suratan itu adalah palsu dan dengan maksud supaya suratan itu

digunakan dengan curangnya sebagai tulen dan dengan itu kamu telah

melakukan kesalahan yang boleh dihukum di bawah s 474 Kanun Keseksaan.

When the charges were read and explained to the accused, he claimed trial.

Briefly stated, the facts adduced by the prosecution were that on 3 November 1994 at about 11.15pm a police party led by Chief Insp Noraini bin Abdullah (SP4), acting on information received, went to Seng Huat & Co, a petrol station, at Jalan Laksamana Cheng Ho and waited there. The following morning at about 12.40am they saw a red Proton Saga motor car bearing registration no WBP 714 entering and stopping at the compound of the petrol station. The accused alighted from the car. SP4 and his party approached him and uttered the word police. He tried to run away but was arrested. The accused was then searched. From his identity card, it was ascertained that his name is Hoo Chee Keong.

The police recovered from the accuseds right shirt pocket, three credit cards wrapped in tissue and a plastic packet (exhs P3, P4 and P5). From the left shirt pocket, four sales slips from another petrol station were recovered (exhs P6A, B, C and D). SP4 also recovered from the motor car a slip of paper which had eight series of numbers and four signatures on it (exh P8). The arrest of the accused and the recovery of the exhibits from him were not challenged by the defence.

In this evidence, SP4 gave particulars of P3, P4 and P5, none of which were in the name of the accused. The particulars of the cards were as follows:

(1) Exhibit No: P3

Card No: 5279-7815-20231-5001

Magnetic Strip No: 5191-4300-1224-0393

Name on Card: PT Poon

Issuing Bank: Citibank

Expiry Date: Valid thru 11/94

(2) Exhibit No: P4

Card No: 5400-6800-3003-0831

Magnetic Strip No: 5301-2500-9008-9752

Name on Card: Tan Soon Meng

Issuing Bank: National Westminster Bank