Estate agent in Singapore fined $5,000 for abetting Narcotics officer

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Estate agent in Singapore fined $5,000 for abetting Narcotics officer to commit computer misuse

Published on Mar 24, 2014
By Elena Chong

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SINGAPORE - An estate agent was fined a maximum of $5,000 on Monday for abetting a Central Narcotics Bureau officer to misuse the bureau's computer system to get information on a Singaporean whose wife was seeking a divorce.

Lim Wui Kiat, 36, admitted to instigating staff sergeant Ho Kian Chong, 40, to unlawfully access the data contained in the bureau's Integrated Drug Enforcement Administrative System (IDEAS), which displayed the details of one Hee Hoi Weng in May 2010.

A district court heard that in October 2009, Lim introduced a Vietnamese woman, Ms Doan Thi Kieu Giang, to his friend, Ho.

Ms Giang, who was married to Mr Hee, wanted a divorce but did not know where her husband was living and asked Lim for help to get her husband's address in order to send him a lawyer's letter for the divorce.

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Realtor fined over misuse of CNB computer system

Elena Chong
The Straits Times
Thursday, Mar 27, 2014

An estate agent who got a friend in the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) to misuse its computer system in a bid to find a "missing" man was fined $5,000 on Monday.

Lim Wui Kiat, 36, was asked by a Vietnamese woman called Doan Thi Kieu Giang to help locate her Singaporean husband - Hee Hoi Weng - because she wanted to divorce him.

In May 2010, Lim texted his friend Ho Kian Chong, 40, the NRIC number of Mr Hee and asked him to look for Mr Hee's address, which he sent back to Lim a day or two later.

Investigations revealed that Ho, then a staff sergeant and senior investigating officer with CNB, had found it by entering the NRIC number into the Integrated Drug Enforcement Administrative System (Ideas), which allowed him to access Mr Hee's biodata, Police Gazette records and CNB drug records - although he was not the subject of any investigation at the time. Mr Hee confirmed that he received the divorce papers in June 2010.

Lim admitted instigating Ho to use the system illegally and told the police he knew it was wrong for Ho to use Ideas when it was not for work purposes.

Ho, who had worked for CNB for 12 years, was jailed for two weeks last October. The CNB said he was suspended after being charged in court and is no longer in service. The maximum penalty for computer misuse is a $5,000 fine and two years' jail.