<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Con man flees after cashing bogus cheque
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>Money changer's workers chase him to Orchard MRT station, where he got away </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Jamie Ee Wen Wei
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->Two employees from a money changer chased a customer from the Thai Embassy to Orchard MRT station but he managed to elude them by boarding a train.
The customer is alleged to have cheated the money changer of $2,000.
Manager M. Mohammed, 30, said it was the first time in the shop's 30-year history that it had encountered a cheat.
At 5pm last Friday, a Caucasian in T-shirt and jeans went to the shop to exchange a £1,000 traveller's cheque for local currency.
As standard procedure, a shop assistant took down his name and passport number, and handed over $2,000.
After he left, Mr Mohamed, who was attending to other customers earlier, checked the traveller's cheque and found it to be suspicious.
'The signatures looked quite different and the bank numbers at the bottom looked like they were modified,' he said.
Two shop assistants went in search of the man and saw him outside the Thai Embassy. He started to run towards Orchard MRT station.
There, Mr Anwar Ali, 31, one of the assistants, approached the station staff for help. An officer followed them to search for the man.
At the platform, they saw him and grabbed hold of him. He struggled immediately and managed to get on a train heading towards Marina Bay.
The train doors closed before the pursuers could enter.
'The officers should have stopped the train. If they did, we would have caught him,' said Mr Anwar.
=> Ang moh tua kee leh! Cannot suka suka stop one u know!
SMRT confirmed that the incident took place but said the two men did not make any request for the train to be stopped.
She said that there are procedures in place to allow officers to stop the train until the police arrives.
This can happen in cases of emergency or when there is clear danger to the safety of commuters, like when there is an armed man on board.
Mr Mohamed said they have filed a police report.
The police have visited the shop to view the closed-circuit television footage and taken away the bogus cheque. [email protected]
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>Money changer's workers chase him to Orchard MRT station, where he got away </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Jamie Ee Wen Wei
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->Two employees from a money changer chased a customer from the Thai Embassy to Orchard MRT station but he managed to elude them by boarding a train.
The customer is alleged to have cheated the money changer of $2,000.
Manager M. Mohammed, 30, said it was the first time in the shop's 30-year history that it had encountered a cheat.
At 5pm last Friday, a Caucasian in T-shirt and jeans went to the shop to exchange a £1,000 traveller's cheque for local currency.
As standard procedure, a shop assistant took down his name and passport number, and handed over $2,000.
After he left, Mr Mohamed, who was attending to other customers earlier, checked the traveller's cheque and found it to be suspicious.
'The signatures looked quite different and the bank numbers at the bottom looked like they were modified,' he said.
Two shop assistants went in search of the man and saw him outside the Thai Embassy. He started to run towards Orchard MRT station.
There, Mr Anwar Ali, 31, one of the assistants, approached the station staff for help. An officer followed them to search for the man.
At the platform, they saw him and grabbed hold of him. He struggled immediately and managed to get on a train heading towards Marina Bay.
The train doors closed before the pursuers could enter.
'The officers should have stopped the train. If they did, we would have caught him,' said Mr Anwar.
=> Ang moh tua kee leh! Cannot suka suka stop one u know!
SMRT confirmed that the incident took place but said the two men did not make any request for the train to be stopped.
She said that there are procedures in place to allow officers to stop the train until the police arrives.
This can happen in cases of emergency or when there is clear danger to the safety of commuters, like when there is an armed man on board.
Mr Mohamed said they have filed a police report.
The police have visited the shop to view the closed-circuit television footage and taken away the bogus cheque. [email protected]
