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SHAH ALAM: The widow of Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan had filed an objection to the Employee Provident Fund (EPF) over the nomination of her late husband’s credit contributions two weeks after his death, it was reported today to the Superior Court.
EPF account officer Noor Hafizah Osman, 36, who was attached to the retirement operations management division in 2018, said that according to EPF records, the nominee for Nazrin’s contribution was Eza Shafina Dzulkarnain , 47, as presented by the deceased on January 13, 2011.
“On June 28, 2018, EPF received a nomination objection from the wife of the deceased (Nazrin), Samirah Muzaffar at the EPF Kuala Lumpur branch. On that date, Samirah submitted a letter of protest on her behalf and signed it herself, ”she said.
The 45th prosecution witness said this while reading her testimonial statement while testifying at the trial of Samirah, 46, and two teenagers, now 19 and 16, as well as an Indonesian woman, Eka Wahyu Lestari, who is still at large. .
They are all accused of murdering Nazrin in a house in Mutiara Damansara, between 11:30 p.m. on June 13, 2018 and 4 a.m. the next day.
Noor Hafizah said that Samirah, by filing the objection, had requested that her husband’s EPF account be frozen as he was in the process of obtaining a payment certificate from the sharia court.
He said that after the objection, the EPF had sent a letter to Samirah on July 6, 2018, recommending that he file a citation of origin in the Superior Court and obtain a court order within 21 business days, if he wanted to object to the payment. of the deceased’s contribution to Eza Shafina.
“However, the EPF did not receive any subpoena or court order from Samirah until we were informed that Nazrin’s death was being investigated as a murder case,” said the witness.
When questioned by attorney LS Leonard, the witness said she often received objections to EPF nominations from close family members, as presented by Samirah.
“This is a common thing,” he said.
The trial before Judge Ab Karim Ab Rahman continues on Monday.
