Deliveryman jailed for using fake RWS chips

[Dee Jay]

Deliveryman jailed for using fake RWS chips

Published on May 10, 2012
By Elena Chong

A deliveryman was jailed for 32 months on Thursday for using fake $500 casino chips at the Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) casino.

Neo Seow Hua, 34, pleaded guilty to three charges of using counterfeit chips by wagering a piece of fake $500 chip on baccarat games on Jan 22, 2011.

The court head that in late 2010, Neo, whose wife is a China national, ordered 100 pieces of RWS $500 chips from a factory in China, using a genuine piece as sample.

Subsequently, he collected a package of 92 counterfeit chips from a courier company on his return to Singapore in early 2011

Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

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[Dee Jay]

Man jailed 32 months for using fake casino chips

AsiaOne
Friday, May 11, 2012

A delivery man was jailed 32 months for using fake casino chips at the Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) casino.

Neo Seow Hua, 34, used six fake $500 chips to play baccarat on Jan 22 last year. He left the casino after he had lost all the chips.

On the same day, the fake chips were discovered when three patrons tried to cash them.

The police cleared them of wrongdoing after investigations showed they had obtained the chips unwittingly while gambling at the casino, said The Straits Times.

Neo pleaded guilty to three counts of using the counterfeit chips.

The court was told that he had the chips made in a factory in China, and received 92 of such chips from a courier company.

When the news broke that the fake chips had been detected at the casino, he went to Marina Barrage and threw the remaining chips into the sea.

RWS spent 415,400 euros (about S$672,000) to replace the $500 chips it had recalled.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Terence Chua pressed for a stiff sentence because such offences were hard to detect, and other innocent patrons were affected when they were found with the fake chips.

Neo could have been fined up to $150,000 and/or jailed for up to seven years on each charge.

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