The accused (left) at the Kuching Court complex yesterday. — Borneo Post Online

KUCHING, Dec 18 — A 49-year-old local man was charged at the Magistrate’s Court here yesterday with cheating three persons in a bogus land deal last year.

No confession was recorded from the accused, Ram Kipriwi, as soon as the charges under Section 420 of the Penal Code were read out to him through a court interpreter.

The section provides for imprisonment of not less than one year and not more than 10 years, and whipping and/or a fine upon conviction.