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Ex-MD jailed a month for phantom worker scam
Published on Mar 6, 2012
By Khushwant Singh
Between May 2007 and February 2009, Wang Jianping paid the Central Provident Fund (CPF) contributions for 41 Singaporeans to inflate his firm's allocation for work passes for foreign employees.
The locals were all phantom workers, who did not work for him, and on Tuesday, Wang, a China national and a permanent resident, pleaded guilty to making three false statements to the Controller of Work Passes.
Another 17 similar charges were taken into consideration by District Judge Mathew Joseph when meting out the sentence. Wang, 55, was jailed a month.
He committed the offences while running construction firm Giantwill located at the industrial park at Kaki Bukit Avenue 1. In October 2009, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) received information of possible infringements by the firm. Investigations then revealed that Wang had lied in his applications for work permits that the CPF accounts were of bona fide employees.
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.
