Jailed 32 months, LOL.
https://mothership.sg/2025/03/singapore-influencer-jailed/
S'porean influencer, 26, who stole from Sentosa bungalow, jailed more than 32 months
Downfall. March 19, 2025, 04:37 PM
A Singaporean influencer,
Chin Tung Sheng, who had more than 334,000 Instagram followers, was sentenced to 32 months and one week in jail on Mar. 19.
This marked the dramatic downfall of the 26-year-old online personality, who not too long ago showed off his luxurious lifestyle on social media.
He pleaded guilty to seven charges, including cheating, theft and forgery, on Mar. 7,
The Straits Times reported.
What judge said
District Judge Kenneth Chin said the accused was a prolific fraudster who had committed his crimes over a substantial period of time.
The judge said little weight ought to be given to the fact that Chin did not have a criminal past,
It was noted that some of his offences occurred during the 24-month conditional warning period imposed on him on Jan. 8, 2021.
He had also continued to offend until he got caught, the judge said.
Chin had, in one instance, cheated a food delivery rider of S$63 by doctoring a PayNow receipt on Jul. 21, 2022 and not making repayment.
The judge also called the defence’s request “wholly inadequate”, as it was suggested that Chin ought to be given a day's jail for the offence instead of a week, and disagreed with their submission that Chin's actions were not premeditated.
The judge noted that Chin had gone to a bungalow on Sentosa several times, and even pretended to be an interested prospective tenant, before stealing from the house.
His crimes
Chin was found to have broken into the Sentosa house between November and December 2023.
He stole around S$200,000 worth of goods, including display ornaments and Louis Vuitton trunks.
He has not made restitution.
In July 2022, Chin booked a stay at Amara Sanctuary Sentosa and used a doctored PayNow receipt to deceived the hotel staff that he had paid over S$13,200 in full.
Between August 2020 and April 2021, Chin forged payment receipts to get membership points from ION Orchard after creating more than 25 different accounts.
The membership points were exchanged for the mall's shopping vouchers, worth more than S$76,900, on at least 96 occasions.
In 2020, Chin wanted to convince potential business partners and forged multiple documents to appear as if he had links to the Singapore government and healthy finances, where bank balances were doctored to show that he had more than S$1.8 billion in one account, and S$16.9 million in another.
A letter from the Prime Minister’s Office was also doctored to show that it was addressed only to him and not his previous company.
The message was to thank the recipient for helping Singapore by providing medical supplies during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The judge said he hoped that Chin would learn a lesson from these episodes and Chin said he did.
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