00:00A salesman pleaded not guilty on Tuesday at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court
00:04to a charge of fraud involving the sale and purchase of gloves worth 5.1 million ringgit
00:09five years ago. 36-year-old P. Dinesh is accused of committing the offence alongside Aspen Broadway
00:16Sandirian Berhad director R. Gopinathan Pillai, who was charged in a separate Sessions Court
00:22in February. According to the charge, the victim who owns Atlas Holdings was misled
00:28into believing that 150,000 boxes of Coates nitrile examination gloves under the Hartalega
00:36brand were stored and ready for delivery by Gopinathan's company. However, the gloves did
00:42not exist. Dinesh allegedly persuaded the victim to transfer 5.1 million ringgit through a law firm
00:49to another firm appointed by Aspen Broadway, a transaction the victim would not have made
00:54had they known it was fraudulent. The offence allegedly took place on November 9, 2020,
01:00at a condominium in Jalantun, Ismail, Kuala Lumpur, around 11 a.m. Judge Azrul Darus granted Dinesh
01:08bail of 100,000 ringgit with one surety and also ordered him to surrender his passport to the court
01:14and report to a nearby police station once a month. The court has set July 28 for document submission.
01:20On February 10, Gopinathan was charged with one count of fraud and seven counts of money laundering
01:26involving the same glove deal.
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