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Daily Express
4 days ago
- Daily Express
UiTM professor fined RM20,000 for false research claims
Published on: Thursday, June 19, 2025 Published on: Thu, Jun 19, 2025 Text Size: SHAH ALAM: A professor from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) was fined RM20,000 by the Sessions Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to submitting false salary claims for non-existent research work in 2021, the New Straits Times reported. Prof Datin Dr Hapizah Md Nawawi, 65, changed her plea to guilty on six alternative charges and was sentenced by Judge Datuk Mohd Nasir Nordin. Advertisement The court ordered 21 months' imprisonment in default of payment, but she paid the fine. Hapizah admitted to conspiring with Amirah Mohd Ariff to falsify documents for RM14,000 in salary claims for research work never carried out. The claims were linked to a project titled Mechanism of Drone-assisted Technology on Efficiency of Mass Disaster Victim Identification, conducted between April and October 2021. Twelve other alternative charges were taken into consideration under Section 171A of the Criminal Procedure Code. Advertisement The charges were framed under Section 109 of the Penal Code read with Section 471 and punishable under Section 465, which provides for up to two years' jail, a fine, or both. * Follow us on our official WhatsApp channel and Telegram for breaking news alerts and key updates! * Do you have access to the Daily Express e-paper and online exclusive news? Check out subscription plans available. Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express's Telegram channel. Daily Express Malaysia
New Straits Times
5 days ago
- New Straits Times
Professor fined RM20,000 for submitting non-existent claims
SHAH ALAM: A professor from Universiti Teknologi Mara's Sungai Buloh campus was yesterday fined RM20,000 by the Sessions Court after pleading guilty to submitting false claims related to non-existent research work in 2021. Judge Datuk Mohd Nasir Nordin handed down the sentence to Professor Datin Dr Hapizah Md Nawawi, 65, after she changed her plea to guilty on six alternative charges linked to the offences. The court ordered her to serve 21 months in jail if she failed to pay the fine. She settled the fine. On the six alternative charges, Hapizah admitted to conspiring with Amirah Mohd Ariff to falsified documents to claim RM14,000 in monthly research assistant salary. However, Amirah had never conducted any work for the research titled " Mechanism of Drone-assisted Technology on Efficiency of Mass Disaster Victim Identification. Hapizah committed the offence at the campus' Institute of Pathology, Laboratory and Forensic Medicine from April to October 2021. The charges were framed under Section 109 of the Penal Code read with Section 471 and punishable under Section 465. It carries a maximum two-year jail term or with fine or both upon conviction. Hapizah's 12 other alternative charges were taken into consideration under Section 171A of the Criminal Procedure Code. Deputy public prosecutor Muaz Ahmad Khairuddin confirmed this when contacted by the New Straits Times. Hapizah was represented by lawyer Shamsul Sulaiman. On July 31 last year, Hapizah claimed trial to the 18 charges of submitting RM38,000 worth of salary claims for non-existent research work.
