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Dec 31, 2010

Brit businessman fined for Christmas shoplifting

By Khushwant Singh

HE WAS caught stealing four bottles of Heineken beer from a 7-Eleven store in River Valley Road on Christmas Day.

Released on bail, Antony Karl Pugh, 32, was at it again a day later.

A store security officer saw the British businessman opening and drinking a 187ml bottle of Jacob's Creek wine in the NTUC Fairprice store in City Square Mall in Kitchener Road.

Pugh then attempted to leave the store carrying a bag of five oranges and a big bottle of Rosemount wine stuffed in the back pocket of his jeans, without paying for any of the items.

In court on Friday, Pugh, who arrived here on Dec 11, said he was intoxicated. He was fined $1,000.

 

[Zuo Ci]

6 months jail for selling passport


Dec 31, 2010

6 months jail for selling passport

By Khushwant Singh

THE very day she flew in, Renuka Sanjeewani Maddumage, 38, sold her passport to another Sri Lankan woman along Serangoon Road for $600.

Six days later on Wednesday, Dec 29, she was arrested when she went to report its loss to the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) at Kallang Road.

The court was not told how ICA got wind of the sale.

But the court heard that her passport was in demand because of its social visit pass valid till Jan 22, 2011.

Maddumage pleaded guilty on Friday and was jailed six months for allowing her passport to be used by another person for travel or identification.

The woman, who bought the passport, is to be dealt with on Monday.

 

[Dhalsim]

Dec 31, 2010

First charge for using fake casino chips in MBS

By Elena Chong

Five Indian nationals were charged with using fake casino chips. -- ST PHOTO: TERENCE TAN

FIVE Indian nationals were charged in a district court on Friday with using fake casino chips.

This is the first case of its kind since Resorts World Sentosa and Marina Bay Sands opened in February and April 2010.

Maqsud Ibrahim, 28, Gurav Vishal Sopan, 26, Shettiyar Kunabalan, 24, Soheel Ahmad Jalih Ahmad, 33 and Asfaq Usman, 25, are each alleged to have used an unknown number of counterfeit chips valued at $1,000 each by exchanging them into smaller denominations of the genuine chips at Marina Bay Sands casino on Thursday.

They were remanded at Central police division lock-up with permission to take them out for investigation.

All five will be back in court next Friday, Jan 7.

If convicted, they face a fine of up to $150,000 and/or a jail term of up to seven years.

 

[Musashi Miyamoto]

Jan 3, 2011

M'sian jailed for molesting pupil on school excursion

By Khushwant Singh

Gee Ah Meng, 54, was jailed to 2 1/2 months.

GEE Ah Meng, 54, went up to a 10-year-old pupil on a school excursion at Changi airport and caressed the boy's chest for about 30 seconds in November last year.

The unmarried Malaysian pleaded guilty to outraging the modesty of his victim and was jailed 2 1/2 months on Monday.

A second charge of touching the chest of another pupil two minutes later was taken into consideration by the judge.

His jail term was backdated to Nov 16, the date he was remanded.

Gee, who is jobless, could have been jailed up to five years and fined or caned for molesting victims under the age of 14.

 

[R y u]

Jan 3, 2011

Man in court for causing hurt in mobile phone robbery

By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent

AN INDIAN national was charged in court on Monday with causing hurt to a woman while robbing her of her cellphone.

Pansapakesan Ranjitkumar, 29, is alleged to have punched the head and bitten the hand of Ms Siti Juliana Zullkefley 27, during the $250 robbery at the void deck of Block 173 Woodlands Street 13 last Saturday.

He was remanded at Jurong police division for a week.

If convicted, he could be jailed between five and 20 years and given not less than 12 strokes of the cane.

 

[Red 4]

Jan 5, 2011

M'sian hubby fined for lying to ROM he was single

By Khushwant Singh

A MALAYSIAN and permanent resident here was on Wednesday fined the maximum $3,000 for lying to a Commissioner of Oaths that he was single when he married a Singaporean in 1998.

The marriage went through but the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) discovered the bigamy in May 2010 when businessman Tan Hock Lum, 50, applied for a student's pass for his son from an earlier marriage.

He also submitted his Malaysian marriage certificate to Madam Khoo Gun Hoo as a supporting document, and checks by ICA indicated that this marriage is still valid.

Tan pleaded guilty in a district court on Wednesday to making a false declaration.

The Malaysian came here in 1985, obtaining his PR a year later. In 1987, he married Madam Khoo Gun Hoo in Kluang in Johor while continuing his business here.

The couple went on to have three children but living apart from his family resulted in Tan befriending and growing close to a Singaporean woman in 1990.

Eight years later in 1998, they decided to marry and Tan declared he was single and not married to any other person before Commissioner of Oaths Ms V. Suppiah at the Registry of Marriages (ROM).

 

[Kenshin Uesugi]

Jan 7, 2011

Lorry hit 140kmh trying to beat cops

Driver who refused to cooperate in breathalyser test gets jail and fine

By Khushwant Singh

A LORRY ran a police roadblock, beat a red light and blazed down Jurong Town Hall Road at 140kmh trying to outrun a pursuing police car early on July 6 last year.

The driver, Bagavath Singh Jayakkumar, 31, was eventually cornered after the 3km high-speed chase. At the police station later, the Indian national refused to breathe properly into a breathalyser.

On Thursday, he was jailed a month for dangerous driving and fined $2,500 for failing to provide a specimen of his breath for the breathalyser test.

The court heard that police conducting checks at a roadblock along Jurong Town Hall Road at 1.20am that day had signalled him to stop.

But he simply drove through, eventually reaching a speed that was twice the 70kmh allowed on that road, even as a patrol car, siren blaring, stayed on his tail.

Jayakkumar was forced to stop at the junction of Boon Lay Way and Jurong East Street 31, as there was no way through the vehicles that were waiting at the red light.

Smelling strongly of alcohol and failing the breathalyser test conducted by an officer, he was arrested and escorted to Clementi Police Division for another attempt to measure the alcohol level in his breath.

Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
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[Sun Quan]

Sleight-of-hand thieves caught at Resorts World Sentosa
Posted: 06 January 2011 2235 hrs
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SINGAPORE: Two Sri Lankan nationals have been arrested for cheating by sleight of hand at a gift shop at the Resorts World Sentosa.

The two men, aged 25 and 37, distracted the cashier and made off with S$50 on Wednesday.

Police said the men took turns to pay for small items with $50 and $100 dollar notes and even asked to exchange five $10 notes.

In the middle of all the transactions, they managed to leave the shop with $100.

The cashier only realised the register was $50 short after they had left.

She caught up with them and sought the help of security officers to detain them.

Police said one of the two suspects could have been involved in at least three other similar cases of theft by sleight of hand at retail shops in other parts of Singapore.

The suspects will be charged in court.

- CNA/ir

 

[Han Solo]

Jan 10, 2011

Jailed for submitting fake payslips to bank

By Khushwant Singh

A BANK officer suspected that a payslip submitted by a credit card applicant was not the real McCoy and checked with the employer.

True enough, the salary had been inflated to meet the $60,000 annual income requirement set by Standard Chartered Bank (SCB).

Investigations revealed that a whole team at telemarketing firm Touch & Tech was behind it, and on Monday, a direct sales agent and an applicant pleaded guilty to conspiring to using the false payslips and fake employment letters.

Both are Filipinos. Charon Legaspi Dimpas, 26, was jailed three years and nine months while Maria Theresa Arena Garcia, 39, was jailed six months.

A district court heard that Dimpas had submitted fake documents for 96 applicants and earned $8,474 in commission from June to November 2009.

SCB had engaged Touch & Tech to market its credit cards. From its office in Middle Road, Dimpas would make cold calls to prospective applicants but many did not meet the bank's criteria.

Besides the inflated payslips, Dimpas also submitted false letters for extension of employment because applicants needed a minimum of one-year validity remaining on the employment passes.

In Garcia's case, she was an administrative operations executive with an employment agency in 2009, earning $2,600 a month. On the fake payslip, this was inflated to $5,180.

Like the others, she also used the fake documents to apply for a loan and the court heard that SCB had lent nearly $760,000 to the 96 applicants.

 

[Hanzo Hattori]

Jan 10, 2011

Manager jailed for $20,700 criminal breach of trust

By Elena Chong

A LOCAL shoe-chain executive who gambled away $20,733 from the outlet's daily sales collections was jailed for nine months on Monday for criminal breach of trust.

Michael Ng, 25, an Indonesian, was working at Charles & Keith's Suntec outlet at Temasek Boulevard when he committed the offence between Sept 13 and 24 last year.

The court heard that he was supposed to bank in the daily sales of the company's outlet but instead used the money to feed off his gambling habit.

He would take the daily proceeds and 'try his luck'' at the casinos. But he lost all the money.

He could have been jailed for up to 15 years and fined.

 

[Red 4]

Man jailed for operating unlicensed clinic
By Ng Jing Yng | Posted: 11 January 2011 1328 hrs
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SINGAPORE: An Indian national was on Tuesday jailed three months for operating an unlicensed medical clinic and administering medicine to patients.

Justice V K Rajah dismissed 61-year-old Kulandaivelu Padmanaban's appeal for a lighter punishment, saying a deterrent sentence must be imposed.

The prosecution said that in the past five years, there have already been five such cases where foreigners who were not medically trained entered Singapore and provided low-cost medical services for mainly migrant workers.

While there have not been any casualties, so far, Justice Rajah pointed out there could be serious consequences arising from such cases.

During the hearing in the High Court, he also asked for investigation findings to be improved as crucial facts such as how long Kulandaivelu had operated the clinic and the type of medication administered were missing.

Justice Rajah added that due to the lack of evidence, he was imposing a concurrent sentence.

But for future cases, there could be consecutive sentencing when proper evidence is presented.

-CNA/wk

 

[Ken Masters]

Jan 12, 2011

Taiwanese loanshark runner gets 46 months jail, cane

A TAIWANESE national has been sentenced to six strokes of the cane and 46 months' imprisonment after he was convicted in court last Friday for loansharking offences.

Chen Ci Fan, 30, was charged with 12 counts of attempted harassment to borrower with common intention, and four counts of conspiracy to commit harassment to borrower.

Chen is the fourth Taiwanese national to be charged for such offences. His sentence is the heaviest among the four.

The other three - Wu Ting-Yi, 29; Su Wei Ying, 28 and Wu Wei Chun, 24, were also sentenced to jail and caning late last year.

'Foreigners and locals alike should be aware of the serious consequences of dabbling in such criminal activities and not be tempted by the lure of easy money,' advised Police Assistant Commissioner Hoong Wee Teck, the director of the Criminal Investigation Department.

 

[Vultan]

Three Filipino maid charged with helping loansharks
By Shaffiq Alkhatib | Posted: 13 January 2011 1451 hrs
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SINGAPORE: Three Filipino maids have been charged with helping illegal moneylenders run their business.

Two of them, 27-year-old Honey Irene Busto Pande and 36-year-old Amparo Cacayuran Gayo allegedly helped 69-year-old Singaporean Lawrence Yeo in issuing a three hundred dollars loan to another Filipino maid.

This allegedly happened at Rio Vista condominium at Upper Serangoon View on July 25, last year.

Pande is also accused of helping Mr Yeo issue a loan of three hundred dollars to Gayo at the same condominium on June 16.

Mr Yeo hasn't been charged yet in court.

Separately, 28-year-old Melanie Jacalan Munar is the third maid accused of committing the offence.

Also charged with carrying out a loansharking business is 47-year-old Koh Suat Lay, a Singaporean woman.

The pair had allegedly issued a loan of five hundred dollars to a Filipino maid at Lucky Plaza in February, last year.

The loan had an interest rate of 50 per cent and was repayable over three months.

The four women will be remanded at the Central Police Division and will be back in court next Thursday.

If convicted of being part of illegal moneylending businesses, they can be jailed up to four years and fined between $30,000 and $300,000 dollars.

- CNA/fa

 

[khunking]

M'sian charged for human smuggling in Singapore

The Star Online > Nation
Published: Friday January 14, 2011 MYT 9:04:00 PM


M'sian charged for human smuggling in Singapore

SINGAPORE: A Malaysian was charged in the local court here Friday, with running a business of smuggling illegal immigrants by sea into Singapore.
Zulkifly Muhammad, 38, was arrested in Johor by the Malaysian police and sent to Singapore, two days ago.
He was charged in court with four counts of "engaging in the business of conveying prohibited immigrants to enter Singapore unlawfully".
Commenting on the case, Singapore police said the Malaysian was suspected of being a leader of a human smuggling syndicate, and was the 13th such smuggler detained in the last 26 months.
The suspect was believed to have smuggled illegal immigrants by boat via the northern Johor Straits into Singapore.
The last arrest of a human smuggling syndicate leader was in March last year, when Singapore police had successfully prosecuted Herman Latip, also known as 'Botak', who was operating his syndicate in the northern Johor Straits.
He was sentenced to 40 months imprisonment and ordered to be given 24 strokes of the cane.
Singapore Police Coast Guard Commander SAC Teo Kian Teck said the arrest of these syndicate leaders signified a strong resolve to protect Singapore borders against intrusions.
He thanked the Malaysian police, particularly officers from the Nusajaya police headquarters, for their assistance in the latest case. Bernama


<HR SIZE=1 noShade>© 1995-2011 Star Publications (Malaysia) Bhd (Co No 10894-D)

 

[Zhen Ji]

ICA officers foil smuggling attempt
Posted: 21 January 2011 2224 hrs
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SINGAPORE: Immigrations officers at the Woodlands Checkpoint foiled an attempt to smuggle a Chinese national out of Singapore on Friday.

A 40-year-old Chinese national was found in the boot of a Malaysia-register car.

The Chinese national had entered Singapore illegally to find work.

Unsuccessful, he then paid an agent S$1,500 to be smuggle out of the country.

The driver was offered about S$400 for the job and instructed the Chinese national to hide in the car boot.

Overstayers could be given at least three strokes of the cane, on top of a jail term of up to six months.

Those who leave illegally face a fine of up to S$2,000 and jail term of up to six months.

- CNA/fa

 

[borom]

Business Times - 28 Jan 2011

By LYNN KAN

SOME shareholders of Spice i2i are upset over the Internet telephony company's proposed rights issue that has driven its share price to a 19-month low of eight cents.

For one, they told BT that the current rights issue appears to favour Spice i2i chairman Indian billionaire Bhupendra Kumar Modi, giving him the opportunity to raise his stake in the company to 60 per cent at what they perceived as a 'cheap' price. They were referring to the pricing of the rights shares at 5.5 cents against the 11.5 cents that the stock was trading at before news of the planned offering..........

If the rights shares are not subscribed for by entitled shareholders, certain entities controlled by Dr Modi may subscribe for the shares.......and his companies will hold 60 per cent instead of their current 20 per cent in Spice i2i......

There is also the issue of Spice i2i's US$175 million acquisition of Indonesia's Affinity Group, which a shareholder alleges Spice i2i has overpaid for.

He pointed out Affinity Group's pro forma net book value is only US$29.5 million as at Sept 30, 2010, nearly US$145 million below Spice i2i's purchase price

In illustrating the financial effects of the proposed acquisition, Spice i2i notes in a regulatory filing that the group's net tangible assets per share, as at Dec 31 2009, will drop from 6.52 US cents to a negative 7.01 US cents..........

http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/sub/storyprintfriendly/0,4582,423764,00.html?

Seeing how easy it is for the PRC's to get away with it, the Indians (from India)
are also joining in the act.
We are truly on the way to be a world class financial centre-like Wall St in 2009
when Temasek/GIC was busy buying up shares there for long term investment.

 

[Toshiie Maeda]

Jan 28, 2011

CNB makes largest ecstasy haul in 9 years

-- PHOTO: CENTRAL NARCOTICS BUREAU

TWO men and a woman were arrested by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) on Thursday at the Woodlands Checkpoint for drug trafficking.

CNB officers seized about 3,097 tablets believed to be 'Ecstasy', with an estimated street value of $93,510. This is the largest single seizure of 'Ecstasy' since 2002.

Other drugs seized include two packets of 'Ice' weighing approximately three grams; and one packet of a powdery substance believed to be crushed 'Ecstasy' weighing approximately four grams.

The three persons, a 33-year-old Malaysian male, and an Indonesian couple (25-year-old male and 19-year-old female) in the vehicle were arrested.

The three persons arrested will be investigated for the unauthorised importation of a controlled drug.

If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of 30 years imprisonment and 15 strokes of the cane.

 

[Taigong Wang]

Maids jailed for making false claims
Posted: 01 February 2011 1710 hrs
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SINGAPORE: Two foreign maids were jailed on Tuesday for two weeks after pleading guilty to making false declarations to inspectors from the Manpower Ministry (MOM).

Both falsely declared that they were made to work illegally by their employers.

One of the maids, 27-year-old,Burhati, an Indonesian, had alleged that she was sent to work at a residence other than that of her employer's.

Investigations found this to be untrue.

The other was 30-year-old Macaya Glesie Enriquez from the Philippines.

She told MOM officers in August that she was sent to work at her employer's business.

Enriquez admitted later that she had never worked at the premises as a cleaner and that she lied in her statement because she missed her children and wanted to return to the Philippines.

She had thought that by giving a false statement to the employment inspector, she would be able to return to the Philippines sooner.

Both maids pleaded guilty and were sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment.

MOM said five foreign domestic workers were convicted of false declaration.

Divisional Director of the Foreign Manpower Management Division Aw Kum Cheong said giving false statements to MOM would not be condoned.

He said the two maids have not only caused their employers much distress, but also wasted precious public resources.

Mr Aw said the prosecutions on Tuesday serve as a warning to foreign domestic workers that they would have to bear the consequences of making false claims.

Under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act, anyone who makes a statement or furnishes any information that is false to the controller or employment inspector are liable to a fine not exceeding S$15,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or to both.

-CNA/wk

 

[Zhen Ji]

Feb 9, 2011

M'sian jailed for video recording woman in toilet

A MALAYSIAN student was jailed for two weeks on Wednesday for using a mobile phone to video record a woman using the toilet cubicle.

Om Shanmugam Balaraman, 19, admitted to insulting the modesty of the 30-year-old woman at a staff toilet of a bank in the downtown area on Dec 24 last year.

A magistrate's court heard that Shanmugam went to the toilet to ease himself, after which he was washing his hands when he saw the complainant walk in. He smiled at her.

When the complainant was using the last cubicle, he went to the next cubicle and took out his Nokia phone.

He put it in a video recording mode and held it over the partition of the cubicle to video record the complainant for fun.

The complainant saw a shadow from the toilet floor and sensed that someone had entered the adjacent cubicle.

She then looked up and saw a white cellphone, shouted and Shanmugam fled. He kept the phone in his left shoe and denied having one when confronted by the woman and other staff members.

Police came and found his mobile phone which contained a video clip showing the complainant sitting on a toilet bowl and playing with her cellphone.

 

[R y u]

Feb 10, 2011

Two Bangladeshi workers given maximum fine

By Elena Chong

TWO Bangladeshi workers of ExxonMobil's resident contractor were each fined $1,000 on Thursday for violating the Workplace Safety and Health Act.

Hannan Abdul Jalil Monowara Begum, a process maintenance and construction worker, and Anowar Hossain Khan Md Shahadatali Khan, a site supervisor, pleaded guilty to failing to co-operate with their employer, Mun Siong Engineering, to such an extent as will enable the contractor to comply with the provisions of the Act.

The May 3, 2007 breach resulted in the death of three workers from the engineering company at ExxonMobile oil refinery in Jurong Island. Last month Mun Siong was fined $100,000 for failing to ensure the safety of the three workers.

The court heard that five workers had removed a steel plate between two devices called heat exchangers, when a liquid containing flammable naphtha spilled out from inside.

Khan had failed to ensure a suitable 'drip pan' was available to collect the spill while Begum had failed to re-tighten a vertical flange between the heat exchangers to stop the spill. Instead, he spayed water at the flange to wash away the liquid mixture.

Ten minutes later, a fire broke out, killing the three workers and injuring another. Begum escaped unharmed.