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Aug 27, 2010
2 jailed for insurance fraud
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Lim Jit Meng (left) a sales promoter, was given two months' jail while Foo Tze Chiang (right), unemployed, got four months. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
<!-- story content : start --> TWO men who pretended to be injured when they were not were jailed on Friday for insurance fraud. Lim Jit Meng, 47, a sales promoter, was given two months' jail while Foo Tze Chiang, 41, unemployed, got four months. Both admitted earlier to conspiring with Ong Ai Peng, 47, whose case is pending, to cheat India International Insurance (III) between July and September 2008.
Lim claimed he was a passenger in a taxi and was injured in a four-vehicle collision along Sembawang Road on July 15 that year. Foo lied that he was travelling in one of the vehicles and suffered injuries when he tried to induce III to process the personal injury claim for $9,355.
Subsequently when III received the claims from various parties over the road traffic accident, it smelt a rat and referred the case to the Commercial Affairs Department. As a result, 16 people were charged in June for making false motor-injury claims. Lim and Foo are the first persons to be dealt with in this group.
