TWO former top executives of Silver Bird Group Bhd may have been acquitted by the Court of Appeal (COA) last June on 134 counts of cheating and using forged documents to cheat Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) of almost RM67.4 million, but they are not totally off the hook yet.
Even though this was the prosecution’s final appeal, Datuk Jackson Tan Han Kook and Derec Ching Siew Cheong will still have to stand trial on charges levelled against them by the Securities Commission Malaysia for furnishing false information to Bursa Malaysia between 2010 and 2011, after the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court earlier this month declined to strike out the ongoing charges against them.