A senior official of Doxport Technologies will be the first person to be charged in relation to claims that the Malaysian company had cheated 60 British citizens of their investments worth £2.5m (RM13.3 million).

Federal Commercial Crime Investigation Department director Datuk Syed Ismail Syed Azizan told The Malaysian Insider that the man will be charged at the Petaling Jaya magistrate's court on Friday.

"He will be charged with passing off forged documents as genuine,” said Syed Ismail.

Doxport was thrust into spotlight recently after its alleged victims staged a protest in London at the venue where Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was attending a business conference.

The group, calling itself the British Victims of Investing in Malaysia (BVIM), had claimed that the Malaysian authorities had not taken any action against Doxport which allegedly cheated them in 2008.

Its members claimed that they had invested in purchasing Telekom switches and equity in Doxport only to realise later that Telekom did not use such switches in Malaysia.

The disgruntled investors had previously lodged a report at the federal police headquarters in Bukit Aman, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission and the Companies Commission of Malaysia in 2011.

The group implicated Doxport chairman and director Datuk Seri Abdul Azim Mohd Zabidi, who was once an Umno treasurer, and managing director Sivalingam Thechinamoorthy.

Earlier this year, the group filed a suit against Azim and the company.

On its website, BVIM, backed by 15 British MPs, claimed that representatives had met Najib along with former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir and other Malaysian politicians and dignitaries in the last three years to highlight their case.

Doxport, which recently broke its silence over the scandal, insisted that it had not collected any money or provided any documents to any of the 60 investors.

Following their protests in London, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Paul Low said that the two-year probe into Doxport should be expedited.

UPDATES:

Our sources in Bukit Aman said the ex-UMNO treasurer Datuk Seri Abdul Azim Mohd Zabidi will NOT be charged but a senior official, a General Manager, will take the brunt instead. The reason? Your guess is as good as mine.