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May 4, 2011
Trio jailed over Universal Studios e-ticket fraud
By Elena Chong
(From left) Foo Swee Siang, Ng Yit Pau and Ho Seek Fei were jailed between one week and two weeks on Wednesday for fraudulent possession of Universal Studios e-tickets. -- ST PHOTOS: WONG KWAI CHOW
THREE Malaysian men were jailed between one week and two weeks on Wednesday for fraudulent possession of Universal Studios e-tickets.
District Judge Shaiffudin Saruwan who sentenced the trio said they were part of a syndicated operation, and imprisonment was appropriate.
Foo Swee Siang, 24, was a croupier at Resorts World Sentosa when he had 18 Universal Studios e-tickets suspected of being stolen or fraudulently obtained at RWS on April 12.
He and Ng Yit Pau, 26, who had eight such e-tickets, were each jailed for two weeks, while Ho Seek Fei, 26, was given one week for having two e-tickets on April 8.
The court heard that Resorts World Sentosa learnt of a fraudulent transaction of 138 Universal Studios e-tickets booked online using a Bank of Montreal credit card in early April.
The tickets were thus voided for guest entry on April 7.
When guests were found to have used the e-tickets which had been voided, they were stopped by a security officer.
Each of them (Foo, Ng) could have been fined up to $3,000 and/or jailed for up to one year.
