Singapore
Feb 10, 2010
Charged with $1.6m forgery
<!-- by line --> By Elena Chong
A FORMER administration and accounts assistant was hauled to court on Wednesday to face 185 charges of forging bank cheques totalling $1.6 million. Chew Swee Siong, 30, is alleged to have forged the signatures of two signatories between August 2006 and November 2007. At the time of the alleged offences, he was attached to West Bay Condominium at Pasir Panjang. He also faces a 186th charge of transferring part of his benefits, $49,994, to his online betting account and the sum deposited into his OCBC account on Feb 14, 2007. If convicted, he faces a jail term of up to seven years and fine on each forgery charge. The penalty for the last charge is a fine of up to $500,000 or a jail term of up to seven years or both. Bail of $40,000 was offered. His passport has been impounded. A pre-trial conference has been scheduled for March 18.
Feb 10, 2010
Charged with $1.6m forgery
<!-- by line --> By Elena Chong
A FORMER administration and accounts assistant was hauled to court on Wednesday to face 185 charges of forging bank cheques totalling $1.6 million. Chew Swee Siong, 30, is alleged to have forged the signatures of two signatories between August 2006 and November 2007. At the time of the alleged offences, he was attached to West Bay Condominium at Pasir Panjang. He also faces a 186th charge of transferring part of his benefits, $49,994, to his online betting account and the sum deposited into his OCBC account on Feb 14, 2007. If convicted, he faces a jail term of up to seven years and fine on each forgery charge. The penalty for the last charge is a fine of up to $500,000 or a jail term of up to seven years or both. Bail of $40,000 was offered. His passport has been impounded. A pre-trial conference has been scheduled for March 18.
