Man jailed for helping to launder $700,000 loot
Published on Apr 4, 2012
By Khushwant Singh
Three men broke into a container on a ship at Jurong Port and stole 1 million Fiji dollars (S$709,000).
The stolen money, all in $20 denomination, was part of a shipment of 202 million Fiji dollars newly printed notes en route to Fiji.
The loot was handed to a fourth man who approached Sanjay Krishnan to help convert 540,000 Fiji dollars into Singapore dollars.
On Wednesday, the 30-year-old video editor was jailed a year. He had pleaded guilty in March to possessing, transferring and converting stolen property.
Court documents indicate that the three workers stole the cash on Aug 19, 2010 from a ship en route from London to Suva, the capital of Fiji.
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.
