Jailed for helping mum to cheat

[Ranmaru Mori]

Oct 1, 2010
Jailed for helping mum to cheat

By Elena Chong

A MALAYSIAN car repossessor was jailed for three months on Friday for abetting his mother to cheat a dealer at the Resorts World Sentosa (RWS). Toh Yee Foo, 33, who had initially claimed trial, changed his plea to guilty after a 1 1/2-day hearing. At the hearing, a closed-circuit television footage of the incident was shown in court.

Toh had intentionally aided his mother, Madam Chee Cheng Choi, to cheat the casino by throwing a chip towards dealer Robert Tok to distract him while she placed a late winning bet of $1,510 and dishonestly induced the dealer to give her chips amounting to $3,020 at a roulette table on June 9.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Darren Goh said Toh and his accomplice were on opposite sides of the table when he distracted the victim by throwing a chip towards him. The chip landed on the number 0 on the layout roulette table.

Simultaneously, Madam Chee, 55, placed a stack of chips totalling $1,510 on the middle column box. Toh was stopped by RWS security staff at the entrance of the casino while his mother got away. He could have been jailed for up to 10 years and fined.

 

[Red 2]

Oct 2, 2010
Jailed for helping mum to cheat

Malaysian Toh was jailed for three months.

A MALAYSIAN car repossessor deliberately threw a chip towards a dealer at a roulette table so his mother could place a late winning bet, a court heard last week. The chip distracted the dealer and his mother was able to walk away with more than $3,000. Toh Yee Foo, 33, went through a 1 1/2-day trial before pleading guilty to the charge last week.

He is the first person to have gone on trial for a casino fraud-related case. The father of five was yesterday jailed three months for helping his mother Chee Cheng Choi, 55, to cheat. The court heard testimony from three witnesses and viewed closed-circuit television footage of the June 9 incident. The prosecution had yet to close its case when Toh threw in the towel.