Cop jailed 4 months for misappropriating wallet, cash
Published on Mar 19, 2012
Anthony Wu Zhihao, 25, pleaded guilty to committing criminal breach of trust of cash and items with a total value of $435. He was jailed four months on Monday for taking home a wallet that had been misplaced by its owner. -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
By Khushwant Singh
A police sergeant was jailed four months on Monday for taking home a wallet that had been misplaced by its owner.
Anthony Wu Zhihao, 25, had pleaded guilty to committing criminal breach of trust of cash and items with a total value of $435.
A district court heard that on May 17, 2011, assistant manager Khor Wai Chen of the Asian Kitchen in Raffles City, handed the wallet and its contents to Wu at the Kampong Glam neighbourhood police post.
Wu did not fill out a police report and later took the Prada wallet, valued at $400, and its contents with him when he went off duty. He threw away the personal documents in a dustbin keeping only the wallet, cash of $35 and the Ezlink and the Nets cash cards. He then spent $23 buying food for his mother.
Read the full story in Monday's edition of The Straits Times.
