Nigerian jailed in Malaysia for swapping price tags 

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Written by Ibraheem Dooba, Kuala Lumpur     
Thursday, 20 May 2010 06:39 
A Nigerian housewife has been sentenced to a year in jail in Malaysia yesterday for deceiving a cashier by switching the price tags of eleven items of clothing.
Adabonyan Abisola Kofoworola, 25, confessed that she tried to cheat the cashier at Carrefour Mega Mall located in Sentul, a main town area in Kuala Lumpur, at 6.20pm on Jan 18.

The court heard that the cashier called one of the security guards at the mall, Osman Musa, 29, and informed him that Adabonyan had switched the barcode of eleven items of her products.

The guard with the help of another woman took Adabonyan to the security office and after checking confirmed that all the items had their barcodes changed.

While pleading for leniency, Adabonyan explained that she wanted to return to Nigeria immediately to take care of her son and sick parents.

However, the prosecutor, Chief Inspector D. R Ghanthi Nathan, pressed for a deterrent sentence and requested the court to take into account the seriousness of the offence even if the accused was a first time offender.

The presiding judge, Suriatey Mohamed Yusoff, instructed Adabonyan to serve her prison term from the date of arrest on Jan 18.

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