Jailed for dodging offences

[Cao Pi]

Sep 17, 2010
Jailed for dodging offences

By Khushwant Singh

Charlie Lim Chau Lee, 51, was jailed six months for dodging traffic offences. -- ST PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN

A SALES executive, who got two friends to take the rap for his traffic offences, was jailed six months on Friday. Charlie Lim Chau Lee, 51, was also fined $1,000 for running a traffic light in a separate incident. After a tip-off, the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau investigated and discovered that Lim had approached at least three fall guys.

One of them - Benny Sng Kwee Hock - was jailed 1 1/2 months by the same court on Friday for claiming to be driving Lim's car when it ran the red light along Lavender Street on Dec 28. Lim paid the $200 fine but Sng, 54, was docked the 12 demerit points. Any motorist who got 24 points within two years will have his driving licence suspended for a year.

The prosecution had asked for a jail term of three months for Sng but Judge Low noted that the business consultant committed the offence out of friendship and not for financial gain. Earlier that year, Lim had approached businessman Ding Chiang Kum, 52, to help him find someone to take the rap for a speeding offence for $100.

Lim Kim Hock agreed to do so but the 40-year-old cleaner backed out after finding out that it was illegal. Lim's friend Lim Ah Hwa, 39, is then said to have submitted her particulars to the police. She also paid the $150 fine with his money. At a karaoke lounge in Chinatown the following month, she is believed to have received an additional $300. Her case will be heard on Oct 8 (10). Ding is claiming trial.

 

[Keiji Maeda]

Woman gets jail for taking rap


Oct 8, 2010
Woman gets jail for taking rap

By Elena Chong

A WOMAN who agreed to take the rap for a friend's speeding offence was sentenced to four weeks' jail on Friday. Lim Ah Hwa, 39, is appealing against the sentence. Bail of $10,000 was offered. The divorcee and single mother of three admitted to intentionally perverting the course of justice by assuming criminal liability for the offence committed by sales executive Charlie Lim Chau Lee, 51, on Aug 18, 2008.

Charlie and his friend, Benny Sng Kwee Hock, 54, were dealt with last month. They were given six months and six weeks' jail respectively. Deputy Public Prosecutor Lynda Lee told the court that Charlie had initially offered another friend $100 to take the blame for the speeding offence. When the man rejected his offer, he asked Lim if she could help him. She agreed but declined to accept money.

He then drove her to the Traffic Police headquarters in Ubi Avenue 1 where she submitted her particulars to the Traffic Police as the one who had committed the speeding offence. She also paid the fine with $150 given by Charlie. The following month when they met at a karaoke KTV in Pearl's Centre, Charlie rewarded Lim with $300 for assuming criminal liability on his behalf. Lim could have been jailed for up to seven years and/or fined.