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According to records held by the department, Marni was said to have embraced Islam in 2009.

The form in question, which carried her name and identification card number, included a headscarf-wearing photograph taken years earlier for a health card application.


The findings also extend to individuals who had formally converted.

One such case involves Jurni Andawa, a farmworker from Kampung Mosopoh who embraced Islam in 2009.

He told JHEAINS officers that he had been promised a one-off payment of RM1,000 upon conversion, which he never received. Instead, he was given RM300 monthly for three years.

He also said he only learned recently that financial incentives tied to his conversion may have been processed by JHEAINS using zakat funds — information he had never been made aware of before.

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