Mohd Redza who served as chief executive officer till November 2019 said cheque payments made by any organisation must be honoured unless there are elements of offences under the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) at hand.

Earlier today, Bank Muamalat Malaysia denied claims that it refused to accept a cheque from a customer here last week because it was "non-halal."

Its head of banking operations Muhamad Radzuan Rahman said the bank initially rejected the cheque as the name of the payee as written was not the same as the one registered in its system.

"Let me make it very clear that there is no such thing as a halal or non-halal cheque. We are a licensed financial institution which provides banking services including cheque clearing and it is our responsibility to accept any cheque," he said

"That particular cheque was initially rejected purely due to a technical reason," added Muhamad Radzuan, adding that the issue was due to a misunderstanding.

He was responding to a statement by Chew who had asked on Friday (Dec 24) if the bank had rejected a cheque for RM1,500 from a religious organisation for Wah Chai Association simply because it was not halal.

Chew had then said a Wah Chai official made the "non-halal" claim to him after the bank rejected the cheque.

"It was then we discovered that the name of the payee on the cheque and in our system did not match. So, we called and asked them to take the cheque back," he said.

"In conclusion, I would like to say that the whole episode was due to a misunderstanding. The bank needs to know the purpose of the cheque and the source.

"So there must have been an issue of how parties interpreted the situation and this was probably how the words 'halal' or 'non-halal' came about.

"Also, we do not know if these were uttered as we were not there," he said.

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2021...al-cheque-issue

I updated because ktards just left it at "cek tak halal".
need to correct the perception.
as explained by the bank TOGETHER WITH THE ONE MAKING NOISE, the payee name does not match. pure technical reason.