Ex-assistant company GM jailed 31 months for forgery
Published on Mar 16, 2015 5:12 PM
By Elena Chong
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SINGAPORE - A former assistant general manager of a freight forwarding company who forged cheques amounting to almost $250,000 was jailed for 31 months on Monday.
Suffiyandi Shaiful Alfiah took about most of the money while $89,469 was paid to his alleged co-conspirator. He returned $5,000.
The 35-year-old pleaded guilty to 30 counts of forgery for the purpose of cheating, and abetting his former colleague Ahmad Zainol Asyikin Abdol Majid to forge cheques between 2010 and 2012. Suffiyandi had worked with Sin LCL Consol for about eight years until May 2012 when he failed to report for work.
Zainol, 34, whose case is in pre-trial conference stage, was an import assistant and responsible for accounting matters including preparing cheques. He worked from 2008 to 2010.
