Property agent jailed for forgery & criminal intimidation
By Shaffiq Alkhatib | Posted: 02 September 2011 1840 hrs
Ong Sor Ching was jailed six weeks for forgery on Sept 2. She had pleaded guilty earlier. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
SINGAPORE: A freelance property agent was sentenced on Friday to eight weeks' jail for two counts of forgery and another two for criminal intimidation.
Within a period of about ten months, 36-year-old Ong Sor Ching sent out an estimated 1,500 text messages harassing another property agent after a proposed business deal with him fell through.
She created two characters and pretended to be them when she sent out the messages to 41-year-old Jeffrey Tay Yoong Kwang.
The court heard that Ong, who was not represented, also sent similar messages to him via email and Facebook.
Mr Tay had never met Ong in person and had only spoken to her over the phone.
He lodged his first police report on the matter in October 2009.
Officers advised her to stop sending out the messages but she refused to listen.
The matter was later addressed in a mediation session on 16 June last year and a magistrate warned Ong to stop sending out the messages. However, she still refused to do so.
The plump, fair complexioned woman originally faced 100 counts of criminal intimidation but 96 of them were withdrawn.
Ong had also forged two bank documents in January 2009, using them to apply for credit facilities with the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Sherlyn Neo said that Ong made use of her brother's particulars without his consent and pretended to be him when she filled up the forms.
Once the bank approved the applications, she made use of the facilities and incurred expenses totalling nearly S$19,000.
Her brother, 34-year-old Ong Sien Hong, only found out about her offences when he received outstanding credit bills from the bank on 22 June last year.
Ong, who pleaded guilty to four of the seven charges against her, has since made full restitution.
She asked the court to defer her sentence by a few days as she needed to settle some personal matters.
Ong will have to surrender to the authorities by 11am on Monday.
- CNA/al
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