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Taigong Wang
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Jun 28, 2011
Ex-bank officer jailed for using forged documents
By Elena Chong
Indonesian national Rizkiwardhana (above), 38, was convicted after trial of fraudulently using two ABN AMRO remittance application forms, dated Nov 9, 2007 and Aug 22, 2008, as genuine in November 2007 and August 2008 respectively. -- PHOTO: SPF
A FORMER relationship manager was jailed for eight months on Tuesday for using forged documents for processing.
Indonesian national Rizkiwardhana, 38, was convicted after trial of fraudulently using two ABN AMRO remittance application forms, dated Nov 9, 2007 and Aug 22, 2008, as genuine in November 2007 and August 2008 respectively.
At the time of the offences, he was employed by the Royal Bank of Scotland which took over ABN-AMRO Bank in 2007.
The court heard that he had used a validly signed remittance form of Madam Kwee Sien Nio, an Indonesian housewife, to make another copy, instructing the remittance of US$6,300 (S$7,829) from her joint ABN Amro account with her daughter to an Indonesian bank account of a friend, Ms Rini Indriani.
The second document purportedly signed by Madam Kwee's daughter, businesswoman Alexandra Tan, was used to instruct the bank to remit US$1,500 from the pair's joint account to Ms Rini's ABN Amro account.
Ms Tan had testified that she recalled signing a blank remittance application form in 2008 after Rizkiwardhana said it was needed for her unit trust purchase. This was not true.
The two sums of money finally ended up in Rizkiwardhana's hands.
