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Jul 26, 2011
Clerk gambled away $22K embezzled from company
By Elena Chong
A TRAVEL agency clerk who misappropriated $22,828 from the company was jailed for eight months on Tuesday.
Malaysian Lim Fung Ooi, 31, was working at the Transtar Travel kiosk at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) when he was entrusted with the amount by an agent on behalf of a Malaysian travel company last Tuesday.
After reporting off that evening, he took the money to gamble at the RWS casino.
Only $6,800 cash was recovered. He paid back $4,000 as partial restitution to the company.
Lim, who pleaded guilty, could have been jailed for up to 15 years and fined for the offence.
