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Dec 30, 2009
Illegal proceeds used as bail
<!-- by line --> By Khushwant Singh
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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> IN A space of two months this year, a property agent went from using criminal proceeds to post bail for a cheat to helping police get their man. Koh Hui Li, 30, on Wednesday pleaded guilty to using money earned from a crime to bail out the very man she later helped the police to nab. She will be sentenced next month. A district court heard that in January last year, she had arranged for Quah Lai Meng and his girlfriend Goh Mei Yin, both 33, to rent an apartment off Bartley Road. Quah was then under investigation for using dud cheques to top up a number of DBS Bank's Cashline credit facility accounts in his and his friends' names; he did this by drawing cash from these credit lines before the cheques bounced. When he was arrested in the apartment on Jan 22 last year - in front of Koh and Goh - he had already defrauded the bank of $2.1 million. Three days later, his girlfriend was advised by police to turn in all the proceeds from his crime. However, when Goh, a jewellery store clerk, found an envelope containing $113,000 hidden in the bedroom she shared with Quah, she passed it to Koh for safekeeping. Koh used some of the money to settle her credit cards bills; two weeks later, upon Goh's request, she used $100,000 of the money to post bail for Quah.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story
Dec 30, 2009
Illegal proceeds used as bail
<!-- by line --> By Khushwant Singh
<!-- end by line -->
<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> IN A space of two months this year, a property agent went from using criminal proceeds to post bail for a cheat to helping police get their man. Koh Hui Li, 30, on Wednesday pleaded guilty to using money earned from a crime to bail out the very man she later helped the police to nab. She will be sentenced next month. A district court heard that in January last year, she had arranged for Quah Lai Meng and his girlfriend Goh Mei Yin, both 33, to rent an apartment off Bartley Road. Quah was then under investigation for using dud cheques to top up a number of DBS Bank's Cashline credit facility accounts in his and his friends' names; he did this by drawing cash from these credit lines before the cheques bounced. When he was arrested in the apartment on Jan 22 last year - in front of Koh and Goh - he had already defrauded the bank of $2.1 million. Three days later, his girlfriend was advised by police to turn in all the proceeds from his crime. However, when Goh, a jewellery store clerk, found an envelope containing $113,000 hidden in the bedroom she shared with Quah, she passed it to Koh for safekeeping. Koh used some of the money to settle her credit cards bills; two weeks later, upon Goh's request, she used $100,000 of the money to post bail for Quah.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
