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Three men jailed for fake casino chips scam
Published on Nov 8, 2011

By Elena Chong

Three Malaysian men were each jailed for 45 months on Tuesday for conspiracy to pass off fake casino chips as genuine.

Cheah Tuck Sau, 30, Gabriel Wong Cheng Hsiang, 28, both unemployed, and lorry driver Khong Jong Wah, 34, each faced 23 charges of conspiring with Wong Fong Aun and Lee Teik Moon to use counterfeit chips at Marina Bay Sands casino in August.

They pleaded guilty to seven counts each and were each given 15 months per charge. Three are to run consecutively.

A district court that they were part of a syndicate and recruited in Malaysia. They were provided with a bag of fake chips and Singapore SIM cards to be inserted in their mobile phones for communication using code names.

Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

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Foreign domestic worker fined $25K for 3 employment charges

Published on Nov 10, 2011

By Lin Wenjian

A Filipino foreign domestic worker was fined a total of $25,000 by the Subordinate Courts on Thursday for abetting an unlicenced employment agent and for making false declarations in her work permit (WP) applications to be a maid here.

Jeraldine Pagulayan Tuliao, 39, faced two charges under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act and one charge under the revised Employment Agencies Act (EAA) that took effect from April 1 this year.

In the first prosecution for abetment of unlicenced employment agency activities under the revised EAA, Tuliao admitted to working as an assistant to unlicenced employment agent Chua Mei Chern, 39, who is also known as Jayson or Shawn.

Tuliao was fined $20,000 for this offence. Her accomplice, Chua, will be charged in court for operating as an unlicenced employment agent on Friday.

Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

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Maid gets 50 months' jail for stealing from employer

Published on Nov 10, 2011​

An Indian national was jailed 50 months on Thursday after she took more than $400,000 worth of cash and jewellery from her employer. -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
By Kimberly Spykerman

An Indian national was jailed 50 months on Thursday after she took more than $400,000 worth of cash and jewellery from her employer.

Kirandeep Kaur, 25, had been working for the family as their maid since 2009, at their apartment in Holland Road.

She waited till the family had left for a holiday on 26 Mar earlier this year, before raiding the drawer full of cash and jewellery on March 28 with a spare key that had been entrusted to her by the employer.

She then left for India but was eventually tracked down by Indian police. Not all the stolen items were recovered. Kirandeep was arrested when she returned to Singapore in August to look for work.

Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
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'Cobbler' of drug smuggling syndicate jailed, caned

Published on Nov 11, 2011

On Friday, Yubindra Bahadur Tamang pleaded guilty to trafficking in heroin and was sentenced to 21 years in jail and 24 strokes of the cane. -- PHOTO: CENTRAL NARCOTICS BUREAU

By Khushwant Singh

The heroin came from Bangkok hidden in the shoes of drug mules.

Yubindra Bahadur Tamang would unstitch their soles and transfer the drugs into shoes specially bought for the new couriers to take the heroin to Sydney, Australia.

On Friday, the 24-year-old Nepalese 'cobbler' pleaded guilty to trafficking in heroin and was sentenced to 21 years in jail and 24 strokes of the cane.

The High Court heard he was arrested in Aug 2009 together with four other Nepalese and three South Koreans. All are men.

Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
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Woman jailed 18 months for payroll scam
Published on Nov 11, 2011

By Tham Yuen-C

A woman was jailed 18 months on Friday for her role in a payroll scam in which she channelled the salaries of employees who had resigned into her own bank account.

Cheong Ooi Chan, 30, was working for Banshing Industrial when she committed the cheating offences between January and September 2010.

Working as a human resource assistant, the Singapore permanent resident from Malaysia had been given the password to the payroll system.

When she found out that the company had erroneously continued to pay employees who had quit without submitting resignation letters, she logged into the system and changed their bank account numbers to her own.

Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

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Australian charged with outrage of modesty
Published on Nov 15, 2011

Australian James Anthony Woodburn was on Monday charged in a district court with using criminal force to outrage the modesty of a 28-year-old woman.

He allegedly grabbed her breast in the shopping area at Marina Bay Sands, at 12.20am on Oct 15. The 44-year-old regional manager of a marketing firm was also charged with insulting her modesty by showing her his middle finger.

The judge granted an adjournment to allow Woodburn's lawyer time to write to the Attorney- General's Chambers to try to get the charges reduced.

Woodburn, a permanent resident here, was released on bail of $15,000. He is allowed to travel overseas as his job requires him to do so.

Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

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Mother fined for attempting to throw child down 12 floors
Published on Nov 18, 2011

By Khushwant Singh

A mother woke her 11-year-old daughter up in order for them to commit suicide together. In her drowsy state, the young girl obediently climbed onto a chair placed at the open window of the living room.

She only started struggling when her mother lifted her to throw her out of their 12-floor flat in Bukit Panjang. The Primary Five student also screamed: 'I don't want to die. I don't want to jump.'

The commotion brought a tenant of the flat, out of his room. The 27-year-old technician then pulled both mother and daughter down from the chair and called the police.

The mother was arrested. On Friday, the 42-year-old Indonesian national, who is a permanent resident here, pleaded guilty to endangering the safety and emotional well-being of the child.

Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

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Drug trafficker gets rare retrial
Posted: 30 November 2011 2043 hrs

SINGAPORE: The Court of Appeal ordered a retrial into a case of a 32-year-old Malaysian drug trafficker sentenced to death, citing the findings of the judge in the lower court to be "problematic" and his reasoning "unclear".

In setting out its reasons for ordering a retrial, the Court of Appeal also set out the scope of the judicial duty to give "reasoned decisions".

In the case, Thong Ah Fat allegedly drove into Singapore in January 2009 with 142.1g of heroin in his possession.

Thong's subsequent defence was that he thought that he was carrying methamphetamine, or "Ice", and claimed that he had involuntarily given a statement to the authorities.

The trial judge in his judgment of five paragraphs did not believe Thong's account of the statement because "it was neither convincing nor coherent".

But the Court of Appeal was "unable to affirm or overrule the lower court judge's decision as we do not clearly understand how he arrived at certain primary findings of fact that led to his rejection of the Appellant's defence".

The appeals court added that the present proceedings relate to a capital charge and the judicial duty to give full reasons is therefore "even more compelling".

- CNA/fa

 

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Snatch thief jailed and caned for molesting victim

Published on Nov 30, 2011

By Khushwant Singh

First, he propositioned three women chatting near the taxi stand at the Jurong Point Shopping Centre.

When he was rebuffed, he ran off with one of their handbags. They gave chase and when cornered, Chandrasekaran Vairakannu, 27, molested one of them in the scuffle.

On Wednesday, a district court sentenced the Indian national to seven months in jail and three strokes of the cane. The 27-year-old labourer had pleaded guilty to committing theft and outraging her modesty.

One woman is 36 years old, while the other two are 17 years old.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Alan Hu said Chandrasekaran had approached the trio at 7.40pm on Oct 21 and asked: 'One night, how much?'

Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

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KNN allowed to continue in his job and travel overseas? No wonder foreign scums no longer respect our laws. :oIo:

Woodburn, a permanent resident here, was released on bail of $15,000. He is allowed to travel overseas as his job requires him to do so.

 

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KNN allowed to continue in his job and travel overseas? No wonder foreign scums no longer respect our laws. :oIo:

For this type of FT (if really guilty), i have to agree, they shouldn't be allowed to travel until at least case is closed and sentence passed.
So many of us SG folks are working in MNCs and or have to travel, does this then create a legal precedent so that others can
use the same excuse if in caught in the same bind?

He is a PR here and has an easier time absconding if it so suits him. $15k is nothing much to pay for some if it means they don't
have to face the music. All this is assuming he is guilty of course.

 

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Man charged for acting as police lookout
Lianhe Wanbao

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Two men working as lookouts for Geylang pimps have been convicted in court.

Lin Feng Yuan (57, odd job worker) gets paid $100 a day to watch the police for 12 hours a day.

He parks his vehicle at the Singapore General Hospital, about 100 metres from the Police Cantonment Complex. From there, he watches police movements with a pair of nightvision binoculars.

Lin is familiar with the vehicles used by police and will quickly inform the prostitution syndicates in Geylang once the authorities make any move.

After being informed, the pimps and prostitutes know stay low and avoid police raids.

Lin has been arrested on 20 August last year, together with his accomplice Gan Lian Kai, 24.

But that did not deter Lin from returning to his job as a lookout.

He was arrested again at about 11.30pm on 31 May this year, in Geylang Lorong 8.

He had been riding a motorised bicycle through Geylang to look out for police activity.

He had discovered a patrolling police car and had reported his finding to 12 pimps, who pay him $10 each.

He was soon discovered tailing the police and arrested at Geylang Lorong 31.

Lin has been fined $8,000 and his accomplice, Gan, was fined $2,000 in July this year.

Source: Lianhe Wanbao, 1 December 2011.

 

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Woman hid drugs between sanitary pads in her undergarments
Posted: 02 December 2011 1445 hrs

SINGAPORE: A Malaysian woman has been arrested for trying to smuggle two bundles of heroin hidden between two sanitary pads in her undergarments.

She was nabbed at the Woodlands Checkpoint in a joint operation between the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority.

CNB said she was searched by officers who found 960 grammes of heroin -- worth approximately S$144,000 -- on her.

She will be investigated for importation of a controlled drug and, if convicted, may face the death penalty.

The woman was one of 124 suspected drug offenders arrested over a two-day period in three separate operations on 30 November and 1 December.

They include six suspected drug traffickers -- all of whom are Singaporean men -- nabbed in a raid that covered various districts across Singapore, including Clementi, Ang Mo Kio, Toa Payoh and Tiong Bahru.

A combined haul of drugs estimated to be worth S$266,000 was also seized.

In another operation targeting syndicates in the eastern region of Singapore, a suspected drug trafficker was among those arrested. A cocktail of drugs, estimated to be worth S$77,000, was also seized in that operation.

- CNA/wk/ck

 

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I didn't know he had a knife

'I didn't know he had a knife'

August 14, 2011 - 11:56pm

By:

Lediati Tan
Amanda Yong

TNP PICTURE: Regina Khoo
HE INTERVENED when a man harassed a female clerk at a convenience store.
But what Mr Durairaj Babu didn't know was that the man was actually a robber - one armed with a knife.
The foreign worker was then stabbed in the back so hard that the blade broke. Even so, the would-be robber continued slashing at his face before running off, leaving behind his mobile phone which lead to his arrest.
Last Friday, Malaysian Lim Cheng Chan (below), 27, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years' jail and six strokes of the cane after he was found guilty of one count of armed robbery with one charge of voluntarily causing hurt taken into consideration.

PICTURE: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE

 

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Man arrested for sending threatening hoax smses

Published on Dec 7, 2011

By Tham Yuen-C

A 26-year-old man who sent out threatening hoax SMS messages has been arrested.

The Malaysian man is believed to have sent the messages to his colleagues over a work dispute. But to avoid detection, he had used spoofing technology to conceal his actual phone number.

Officers from the Bedok Police Division started investigating the case after the police received several reports about threatening SMS messages between October and December.

They eventually managed to identify the suspect and nabbed him early morning on Dec 7 near Pasir Ris Close.

Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

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Three men convicted for molesting teen girl
Shin Min Daily News

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Three men have been convicted of molesting a 17-year-old girl.

The three, Wang Ming Chang (33, restaurant manager), Wu Wen Hong (29, assistant manager) and Ye Wei Da (30, management trainee) worked together in a restaurant.

On 23 November, 2007, the three got a 17-year-old girl to drink with them at a bar. When it got late, Wang suggested for the group to continue drinking at the restaurant where he worked.

The restaurant was already closed by the time and the four were left alone to play drinking games. The three men pressed the girl to drink as she kept losing the games.

The girl soon became drunk and vomitted twice in the toilet. At the second time, she vomited on Wu, who then laid her down on a carpet. There, the three began to strip her and grope her chest.

Wang also began to finger her private parts as the girl was unable to put up any resistance. The girl tried to get Wang to stop by telling him that she was having her period.

However, he did not relent until he discovered she was indeed using a tampon. At that point, Wang told the other two men to stop as well. When the girl returned home later, she cried and told her mother that she was raped.

She then described what happened to her mother and said that she had thought things were fine since there were four people present. Wang was sentenced to 15 months' jail and 6 strokes of the cane, while Wu and Ye were each sentenced to 10 months' jail and 3 strokes of the cane.

The three are appealing their sentence.

Source: Shin Min Daily News, 8 December 2011.

 

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Cleaner stole watches, neckties from Supreme Court office

Published on Dec 9, 2011

By Khushwant Singh

A cleaner succumbed to temptation when she came across four watches and two neckties in a bag under the table at the Supreme Court on June 20. Wei Li, 34, hid the loot valued at $2,230, in her cleaning trolley and carried on with her duties.

The Chinese national was arrested later that day. On Friday, she was fined $3,000.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Tang Shangjun told a district court that Wei went to the office of Assistant Registrar (AR) Jeyendran Jeyapal at about 1.30pm to tidy it up. It was lunch-time then and it was only some time in the afternoon that the red plastic bag containing the watches and ties was found missing.

When confronted by her supervisors, Wei owed up and surrendered all the stolen items.

Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

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Police hunting man who faked divorce
TNN Dec 10, 2011, 10.19AM IST

COIMBATORE: Massive combing operations are on to nab a 36-year-old man from Narasimhanaicken Palayam in the city who managed to fake his divorce from his first wife by producing a proxy in the family court, and marrying for the second time thereafter.


A search is also on for the woman who posed as his wife and the two advocates who handled his case in court. The accused works as an application engineer in Australia. He is currently in the country along with his second wife. Aware that he along with his wife have booked tickets to travel on Saturday, police have alerted all airports in the country.


The culprit has been identified as V P Sivakumar, a diploma holder in Mechanical Engineering. According to police, Sivakumar married S Swarnalatha hailing from Varadarajapuram near Singanallur in May 2004. While his wife worked as a teacher in Singapore, he did not have a job. After the wedding, he accompanied her to Singapore and lived there for four years, managing with a single salary. Eventually, he got a job in Sydney, Australia and both of them moved there. As differences cropped up between them, Swarnalatha moved to Singapore, returning to her old job.


Last year, Sivakumar filed for divorce in the family court in Coimbatore, but his wife refused to grant it to him. Consequently, he filed another petition in February this year, producing a fake wife in court to acquire his divorce. Two advocates, Anand Raj and Raghupathi had helped Sivakumar in this matter. Police found the signature of the fake wife was similar to that of Sivakumar's first wife. Swarnalatha, unaware of her husband's doings, still believed she was married to him.


In November, Swarnalatha came across her husband's account on a social networking site which revealed that he was engaged to another woman. Unable to connect with her husband, she contacted the woman that Sivakumar was supposedly engaged to, asking for details. The woman immediately deleted her profile from the networking site. On December 1, Sivakumar married for the second time, a woman hailing from Peelamedu at a local temple.


On December 4, Swarnalatha reached Coimbatore and lodged a complaint with the city police. Due to police intervention, attempts by the newly wedded couple to formalize the marriage in a local registrar office had failed. Police have slapped charges including impersonation, fraud and cheating against Sivakumar and his accomplices.


Coimbatore Bar Association has clarified that Anand Raj and Raghupathi were not members of the advocate community in Coimbatore and their whereabouts are not known. Their credibility as lawyers is also being probed.

 

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Woman blackmailed with 'bathing video'
Shin Min Daily News

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A man has been charged for attempting to blackmail a female friend to have sex with him.

The 31-year-old Malaysian man, a Singapore PR, had allegedly told the victim on 21 October this year that he had a video of her bathing.

He then threatened to email the video to the company that she was working at if she turned down his demands to meet and have sex with him.

The victim, a 26-year-old clerk, was the man's school mate in the same university in Sabah, Malaysia.

The two were not known to have a prior relationship and it is understood that they did not stay in contact after they graduated from university.

If found guilty of insulting the modesty of the victim, the man faces a jail term of up to a year and a fine.

Source: Shin Min Daily News, 14 December 2011.

 

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Man jailed for dangerous and drink driving in fatal accident

Published on Dec 16, 2011

Chinese national Li Chuanjun (above), 32, was sentenced to 30 months' jail and banned for driving for 15 years. -- PHOTO: ST

By Elena Chong

A private bus driver who beat the red lights and caused the deaths of two people in a car by dangerous driving was jailed for 30 months and banned from driving for 15 years on Friday.

Chinese national Li Chuanjun, 32, admitted to causing the death of sales engineer, Hilary Tan Kia Hark, 45, and his passenger, Ms Wong Kaiyun, 30, also an engineer, by driving dangerously along Mandai Road on June 25.

Li, who also pleaded guilty to drink driving, failed to obey the red traffic light signal while driving across the junction of Mandai Road, causing the bus to hit the right side of Mr Tan's car and resulting in the couple's deaths.

The court heard that just aftr midnight, Mr Tan exited Bukit Timah Expressway into the slip road of Mandai Road towards Yishun Avenue 1 when the lights were in his favour.

Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.

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