Ex-staff of Vietnamese restaurant jailed four weeks for pocketing $5,000, lying to police
Published on Dec 30, 2014 12:33 PM
Lim Min Sion was sentenced to four weeks' jail after pleading guilty to criminal breach of trust in July and lying to police. -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
By Ian Poh
SINGAPORE - To feed his gambling habit, a restaurant captain at a Vietnamese eatery pocketed more than $5,000 in sales proceeds and then claimed he had lost a bag containing the money.
Lim Min Sion, 30, later told police he was too engrossed with his mobile phone and left the bag in the toilet.
But he admitted taking $5,455 after his superior discovered a shortage in the cash float and that the safe combination had been changed, and confronted him.
On Tuesday, Lim, now unemployed, was sentenced to four weeks' jail after pleading guilty to criminal breach of trust in July and lying to police. Another pair of these two offences was taken into consideration.
