Ex-MUIS senior director, 59, misappropriated over S$68,000 in funds meant for religious school, gets jail
He has since appealed against the sentence.
Former senior MUIS director, Razak Mohamed Lazim, 59, was sentenced to seven weeks in jail for misappropriating S$68,629 from a religious school. Razak, who served as a senior director at the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) from 2011 to January 2016, was also found guilty of computer misuse and misappropriation. He received a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNATA) for two other charges, including allegedly cheating Temasek Foundation International of S$784,900 and accessing the school's email server.
The court documents reveal that Razak misappropriated funds intended for textbook royalties, which he then transferred to a company he was an executive director of. He also failed to disburse a S$70,000 donation to the school for around two years, despite being tasked with doing so as the executive director of the company. Razak's super user access rights to the madrasah's email server allowed him to create a new account to forward emails to his personal email address without authorization.
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