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Man gets 12 weeks for hitting bus driver and fighting with another

Published on Jun 23, 2015 5:42 PM
By Elena Chong

SINGAPORE - A man who assaulted a bus captain and fought with a passenger on another bus was sentenced to 12 weeks' jail on Tuesday.

Ivan Abraham Michel, 30, pleaded guilty to three of four charges.

He hit SMRT bus captain Shan Hai Rui, 32, once on his back on bus service 171 at Jelebu Road in Bukit Panjang just before 1.20 pm on March 10 this year.

Not long later he boarded service 173 and fought with a passenger, Mr Md Ismail Abdul Latif Ramalingam, 27.

He also committed a rash act by throwing a flower pot from the second floor of Block 226 Pending Road on Jan 23 this year. He did this while under investigation and on bail for throwing a laundry rack to the ground floor.

A fourth offence of committing the rash act to endanger the personal safety of others was taken into consideration.

A court heard that shortly after he boarded service 171 at Bukit Panjang Plaza, he started shouting in the bus.

The driver, Mr Shan, stopped the bus and told him to lower his volume. Ivan went up and scolded the victim and hit him once on the back.

An SMRT ticket inspector, who happened to be nearby, saw the commotion and went to help the victim. Police were called.

Ivan later alighted and hopped onto another bus, service 173. Sitting at the back on the same bus was Mr Md Ismail.

Ivan, who was reeking of alcohol, thought Mr Md Ismail was looking at him and confronted the victim.

A dispute ensued and Ivan punched Mr Md Ismail on the head. The victim, who punched him back, suffered a head injury and a broken little finger.

Police were called and Ivan was arrested. His blood alcohol level was found to be 155mg per 100ml, almost twice the legal limit for drink driving.

In the latest case, Ivan was at home on Jan 23 when he quarrelled with his mother over his drinking habit. He had earlier consumed a bottle of rice wine and a few cans of beer.

In anger, he pushed down a flower pot belonging to his neighbour.

The court backdated his sentence to March 12. He had a previous conviction for being a member of an unlawful assembly.

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Myanmar trio charged over Singapore murder plot[/h]
Three Myanmar men were charged on Wednesday with conspiring to murder a fellow national in Singapore with a gruesome collection of instruments including a chainsaw, a meat mincer, a cleaver and a chopping board.
Myanmar nationals Yae Wynnt Oaung, 32, Phyo Min Naing, 31, as well as Singapore permanent resident Zaw Min Hlaing, 37, were charged in a district court with plotting to murder another Singapore permanent resident, Aye Maung Maung Thet, 28.
A fourth suspect, 29-year-old Myanmar national Win Kyaw Kyaw Aung, left Singapore on Monday morning, police said.
The offence is punishable by up to 14 years in jail plus a fine.
The four men attempted to abduct Aye Maung Maung Thet at a suburban carpark on Sunday evening, with two of them assaulting him with a taser, an electrical device designed to stun and disable a person, court documents said.
The men fled when the victim's cries for help attracted the attention of passers-by.
They were arrested the following day, two of them at a rented seaside chalet in Singapore's eastern region.
"Items such as a meat mincer, chainsaw, kitchen knives, gas cooker, gas cylinder tank, a tool set, trolley bags, plastic sheets, cable ties, cleaver, aprons, chopping board and rubber boots were also recovered from the chalet and seized as case exhibits," the police said.
In court on Wednesday, the three men, dressed in civilian attire and handcuffed, appeared sombre as the charges were read to them in Burmese, the Myanmar national language, by an interpreter.
No pleas were entered. They were ordered remanded in police custody for one week to assist in investigations.
The case follows a spate of murder cases in neighbouring Malaysia last year involving Myanmar nationals, mostly in the northern state of Penang. In some cases, victims were decapitated or had some of their body parts severed.
Malaysian police have said they believed the attacks are related to violent clashes in Myanmar between members of the Buddhist majority and its population of Rohingya, a Muslim minority.
But the motive for the botched murder plot in Singapore has not been disclosed.
Gruesome murders are rare in Singapore, a densely populated island of 5.5 million, 40 per cent of them foreigners.

 

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Man jailed 2 years for causing death by rash act after he hits co-worker with rod during a squabble

A construction worker who injured a fellow worker with a wooden rod and caused his death was sentenced to two years' jail on Tuesday (June 23). Bangladeshi national Shagar, 40, who only goes by one name, had admitted to committing a rash act, which caused the death of Chinese national Liu Chun Hua, 37, on Aug 7, 2014. That day, Shagar had attempted to quell an argument between Mr Liu and another worker. But when Mr Liu turned aggressive and violent towards Shagar, he retaliated by hitting Mr Liu's head with a wooden rod. Mr Liu collapsed and died in hospital 11 days later. He was found to have suffered multiple fractures over the front of his head. For committing a rash act that caused death not amounting to culpable homicide, Shagar could have been jailed up to five years and/or fined.

 

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Aloha Changi chalet case: 3 foreigners charged in court with conspiring to commit murder

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Myanmar trio charged over Singapore murder plot

Three Myanmar men were charged on Wednesday with conspiring to murder a fellow national in Singapore with a gruesome collection of instruments including a chainsaw, a meat mincer, a cleaver and a chopping board.
Myanmar nationals Yae Wynnt Oaung, 32, Phyo Min Naing, 31, as well as Singapore permanent resident Zaw Min Hlaing, 37, were charged in a district court with plotting to murder another Singapore permanent resident, Aye Maung Maung Thet, 28.
A fourth suspect, 29-year-old Myanmar national Win Kyaw Kyaw Aung, left Singapore on Monday morning, police said.
The offence is punishable by up to 14 years in jail plus a fine.
The four men attempted to abduct Aye Maung Maung Thet at a suburban carpark on Sunday evening, with two of them assaulting him with a taser, an electrical device designed to stun and disable a person, court documents said.
The men fled when the victim's cries for help attracted the attention of passers-by.
They were arrested the following day, two of them at a rented seaside chalet in Singapore's eastern region.
"Items such as a meat mincer, chainsaw, kitchen knives, gas cooker, gas cylinder tank, a tool set, trolley bags, plastic sheets, cable ties, cleaver, aprons, chopping board and rubber boots were also recovered from the chalet and seized as case exhibits," the police said.
In court on Wednesday, the three men, dressed in civilian attire and handcuffed, appeared sombre as the charges were read to them in Burmese, the Myanmar national language, by an interpreter.
No pleas were entered. They were ordered remanded in police custody for one week to assist in investigations.
The case follows a spate of murder cases in neighbouring Malaysia last year involving Myanmar nationals, mostly in the northern state of Penang. In some cases, victims were decapitated or had some of their body parts severed.
Malaysian police have said they believed the attacks are related to violent clashes in Myanmar between members of the Buddhist majority and its population of Rohingya, a Muslim minority.
But the motive for the botched murder plot in Singapore has not been disclosed.
Gruesome murders are rare in Singapore, a densely populated island of 5.5 million, 40 per cent of them foreigners.

 

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Apex court overturns Nigerian drug trafficker's acquittal

Nigerian lied many times to anti-narcotics officers about 2kg of Ice in suitcase

Published on Jun 30, 2015 8:54 AM
By Selina Lum

The Court of Appeal yesterday overturned the acquittal of a 29-year-old Nigerian man for trafficking in nearly 2kg of methamphetamine, commonly known as Ice.

The three-judge court found that Ilechukwu Uchechuku Chukwudi had lied numerous times in his statements to anti-narcotics officers to distance himself from the drugs found in the suitcase he had brought into Singapore.

The court rejected Ilechukwu's explanations for his deliberate lies, saying they were "no more than convenient excuses".

The case was sent back to the lower court for the trial judge to make a finding on whether his role was limited to that of a courier. This would affect whether he is sentenced to death or life imprisonment.

Ilechukwu, who arrived in Singapore on Nov 13, 2011, claimed he had come here to buy laptops to sell back home. He said he had brought a laptop bag to the airport in Lagos but was handed a black suitcase by an acquaintance who asked him to pass it to a Singaporean contact.

In Singapore, he paid for one night's stay at a Chinatown budget hotel. Shortly after getting a call telling him to meet a woman, he took a taxi to Clarke Quay and passed the suitcase to Singaporean Hamidah Awang, 49.

After they parted ways, Hamidah was arrested at the Woodlands checkpoint as she was driving out of Singapore with the suitcase. Ilechukwu was arrested in his hotel room the next day.

The pair were tried together in the High Court for drug trafficking. Last November, Hamidah was convicted, while Ilechukwu was acquitted. She has yet to be sentenced as well.

Despite the obvious lies in Ilechukwu's statements, the trial judge accepted he had come to Singapore on business and did not know that the suitcase contained drugs.

The prosecution appealed, arguing that the trial judge was wrong to have disregarded his lies and to have accepted that he was a genuine businessman.

Among other things, Ilechukwu had lied after his arrest that he brought only his laptop bag to Singapore, that he did not go to Clarke Quay, that he did not give anything to anybody and that he had never seen Hamidah.

But airport surveillance footage showed him collecting the suitcase. Hamidah also testified he had passed it to her.

In court, Ilechukwu said he had lied because he did not know the full facts of what had happened, so he decided that the safest thing to do was to deny anything that was not in his possession.

 

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Two men accused of conspiring to commit murder brought back to an alleged crime scene

Published on Jun 29, 2015 9:20 AM

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Myanmar National Phyo Min Naing (in red), 31, accompanied by members of the CID and an interpreter (in pink), is brought to the scene where the attempted abduction of Singapore PR Aye Maung Maung Thet took place on June 29, 2015. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG

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Singapore PR Zaw Min Hlaing (in red), 37, accompanied by members of the CID and an interpreter (in pink), is brought to the scene where the attempted abduction of Singapore PR Aye Maung Maung Thet took place on June 29, 2015. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG

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Singapore PR Zaw Min Hlaing (in red), 37, accompanied by members of the CID and an interpreter (in pink), is brought to the scene where the attempted abduction of Singapore PR Aye Maung Maung Thet took place on June 29, 2015. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG

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A member of the CID places arrows around the scene where the attempted abduction of Singapore PR Aye Maung Maung Thet took place on June 29, 2015. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG

By Amir Hussain

SINGAPORE - Two foreign nationals who were charged last week with abetment by conspiracy with another two men to commit murder were taken by police investigators on Monday morning to a multi-storey carpark at Block 747A, Pasir Ris Street 71.

The duo, Singapore permanent resident Zaw Min Hlaing, 37, and Myanmar national Phyo Min Naing, 31, arrived in an unmarked van at the carpark, an alleged crime scene, at 8am.

They were seen leading investigators to a parking space on the first floor of the multi-story carpark.



According to court documents last week, the two had tasered a 29-year-old Singapore permanent resident the previous Sunday. The intention, according to court documents, was to eventually murder him.

An array of items later recovered by police from a chalet at Aloha Changi were the tools allegedly gathered for the deed. These included a meat mincer, a chainsaw, kitchen knives, a gas cooker, a gas cylinder tank, a tool set, trolley bags, plastic sheets, cable ties, a cleaver, aprons, a chopping board and rubber boots.

Last week, Hlaing and Naing, together with a third man, Myanmar national Yae Wynnt Oaung, 32, were charged in court. A fourth man has fled the country.

The alleged target of the four was Mr Aye Maung Maung Thet, a permanent resident.

On that Sunday evening, he was attacked at the multi-storey carpark at Block 747A, Pasir Ris Street 71 by two of the men who tried to abduct him. A taser was allegedly used on him.

The police said in a statement last Tuesday that a call about an assault in Pasir Ris Street 71 on Sunday night led to the arrest of the three men.

The alleged victim told police that the men had fled when his cries for help attracted the attention of passers-by. Officers ambushed and arrested Hlaing near Balestier Road at about 1pm the following day.

Oaung and Naing were arrested at a chalet at Aloha Changi several hours later.

On Tuesday morning last week, police were alerted to an abandoned vehicle in the basement of Changi Airport Terminal 3. They found a white Mitsubishi multi-purpose vehicle at the carpark, and preliminary investigations suggest it was linked to the case.

Meanwhile, it is said that the fourth man, Win Kyaw Kyaw Aung alias Aung Aung, 29, left Singapore last Tuesday morning. Police are looking for him to help in investigations.

All three who were charged last week indicated that they wished to engage counsel.

If convicted, the trio could be jailed for up to 14 years and fined.

 

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Maid gets two weeks' jail for fracture on baby's elbow

Published 01.07.2015
Rei Kurohi

A maid was sentenced to two weeks' jail after she caused a fracture on the right elbow of her employer's seven-month-old daughter in February by yanking on the baby's arm.

Valencia Gemalyn Garma, 24, a Filipina, had been employed to do general house cleaning and look after her employer's two children.

The court heard that on Feb 21, at about 1.30am, Garma, who had been working for the family for seven months, had settled down to sleep with the baby when the child began crying.

She said she had not managed to fall asleep and was agitated and tired after having had to care for her employer's older child, who is two years old. She picked up the baby in an attempt to pacify her, carrying her on her right arm.

Later, she transferred the baby to her chest by forcefully pulling at the baby's right arm. When the baby continued crying for 10 minutes, Garma suspected that she had hurt the baby, but she did not inform her employer out of fear.

The employer was awakened by the baby's cries and took over, telling Garma to go to sleep.

But when her daughter continued to cry for half an hour before falling asleep, and woke up crying again at 3am, she became concerned that the baby might be in pain. Examinations by doctors at Thomson Medical Centre and KK Women's and Children's Hospital revealed that the child had suffered a fracture to her right elbow.

When questioned by her employer, Garma initially denied any involvement but later admitted to hurting the child.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Fong Jin Heng submitted that Garma's failure to inform her employer of the possible injury significantly delayed the baby's mother from seeking necessary medical attention.

District Judge Toh Yung Cheong took into account the fact that Garma had not had prior experience in caring for children and her tired state at the time of the negligent act, and ordered a sentence of two weeks' jail.

For causing grievous hurt by a negligent act, Garma could have been jailed up to six months and fined up to $2,500.

 

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39-year-old jailed for sex with underage girl

Published 01.07.2015
Elena Chong

An information technology professional befriended a 14-year-old girl on Facebook and lured her to his home while his wife was away on the pretext of letting her play with his dogs.

The 39-year-old Indian national had unprotected sex with her that day, and had sex with her again a week later.

Yesterday, Sachin Pravin Dere was jailed for 20 months after pleading guilty to three of five counts of sex with a girl aged below 16.

Dere, who came to Singapore to work in 2011, used a photograph of himself with a dog as his profile picture. He sent the secondary school student a friend request on Oct 14 last year.

While exchanging private messages, he invited her to his condominium in Flora Drive in Changi to play with his dogs the next day.

After they had played with the dogs for a while, he sat with the girl on the sofa, put his arm over her back and began to kiss her.

He later took her to his bedroom where they continued kissing each other. He asked how old she was as he felt that she looked very young. She told him she was 16.

He also asked if she had had sex before and she said she had not.

After sex, he asked her to follow him to the bathroom where he sexually abused her before she said she wanted to stop.

On Oct 22, he invited her to his place and abused her again.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Delicia Tan said Dere knew that the victim was a virgin, yet that did not stop him from exploiting her for his sexual gratification.

Dere, who was represented by Mr Amarjit Singh Sidhu, could have been jailed for up to 10 years and/or fined on each charge.

 

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Malaysian woman sentenced to 6 weeks' jail for stealing RWS casino chips

Published Jul 1, 2015, 5:50 pm SGT
Updated Jul 1, 2015, 6:13 pm

SINGAPORE - She had lost some money gambling at the Resorts World Sentosa casino and wanted a quick way to recoup her losses. So Chong Siew Lion, 45, shifted the wagers of 12 people at various roulette tables to her betting area.

The Malaysian national, who was in Singapore on a social visit pass, committed the crimes within a span of four hours on the evening of May 6 this year.

She was discovered only when one of the victims, who wanted to claim his winnings, found his wager missing. He then complained to the dealer on duty.

Chong was arrested by the police after RWS casino security staff reviewed CCTV footage. A total of $84 worth of casino chips were found on her following her arrest.

For theft, Chong was sentenced to six weeks' jail on Wednesday. She faced a total of 34 charges involving $910 worth of casino chips, with 10 of the charges proceeded with. She pleaded guilty to the charges.

The judge heard that Chong, who wore a sombre expression in court, is a caregiver for her mother who has difficulty moving around. She is married with no children.

Under Section 379 of the Penal Code, any person who is convicted of theft can be punished with a jail term of up to three years and a fine.

 

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Cabby attacker's jail term raised to 3 months

Dino Petrus Johannes van Deijzen had tried to portray himself as the victim. Dino Petrus Johannes van Deijzen had tried to portray himself as the victim.ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

Published 02.07.2015
Selina Lum

He beat up a cabby who threatened to call the police if he did not pay the fare, failed to apologise, and instead portrayed himself as the victim.

Yesterday, Dutch design executive Dino Petrus Johannes van Deijzen saw his three-week jail term increased to three months, after the High Court was persuaded by the prosecution that the original sentence was too lenient.

Justice Tay Yong Kwang rejected suggestions by the 34-year-old that he was also a victim of assault because the taxi driver, Mr Ee Kah Ling, had thrown a retaliatory punch that caused him to lose consciousness.

These claims were "convenient excuses to downplay his use of inexcusable violence" against the 42-year-old taxi driver, said Justice Tay.

The judge added that van Deijzen's attempts to transform himself into a victim, and the conspicuous absence of any apology or compensation to the cabby did not show that he was remorseful.

In the early hours of Oct 21 last year, van Deijzen and his girlfriend were drunk when they boarded Mr Ee's taxi.

When they reached their destination in Ang Mo Kio, the girlfriend vomited inside the taxi.

Mr Ee asked van Deijzen to pay the fare and to resolve the issue of the vomit. But the couple ignored him and walked away without paying. Mr Ee then said he would call the police.

When he went to his taxi to get his phone, van Deijzen slammed the car door on him and punched him. Mr Ee tried to flee, but the Dutchman chased him, pushed him to the ground and repeatedly punched and kicked him.

The violent acts were recorded on the camera in the taxi.

A passer-by called the police, and Mr Ee was taken to hospital. He suffered slight redness on his chest and multiple abrasions.

Three days later, after van Deijzen was told by police to give his statement, he saw a doctor and claimed that he was beaten by a cabby and when he woke up, his valuables were gone.

When he pleaded guilty last month to hurting the cabby, van Deijzen said in mitigation that he had been knocked unconscious by Mr Ee during the scuffle.

Yesterday, Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) April Phang said the district judge appeared to have been swayed by van Deijzen's claims. She argued that there can be no doubt that the attack was one-sided.

The DPP also said van Deijzen was not averse to exaggeration and fabrication, noting that he portrayed himself as the sole victim to the doctor.

 

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Businessman jailed 14 weeks for molesting property exec he tried to bribe

A businessman was jailed 14 weeks on Friday (July 3) for molesting and attempting to bribe a property management executive.
Nguyen The Tuan, 41, a Singapore permanent resident from Vietnam, had pleaded guilty to corruptly offering $1,000 to her and another charge of molesting her.
Court papers said Nguyen and his wife had breached the terms of their two rented service apartments in 2014 and had to hand over the units back to the local property developer.
The female property management executive assessed the damages in one of the apartments to be worth $5,000.
Nguyen offered her $1,000 as he wanted her to reduce the damages to $1,000.
She rejected his offer.
The next day, he molested her by touching her right arm, leaning in to kiss her and sniffing her neck.

 

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Maid gets 2 weeks' jail for hurting baby

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Friday, Jul 3, 2015

Awakened by the cries of her employer's daughter, she picked the child up to pacify her.

When Filipino maid Valencia Gemalyn Garma, 24, wanted to reposition the seven-month-old baby while carrying her, she pulled the girl's right hand forcefully. This caused the child to suffer a fracture on the right arm near her elbow.

Garma was jailed for two weeks yesterday after pleading guilty to one count of causing grievous hurt by performing a negligent act.

She committed the offence in a Toa Payoh flat on Feb 21. The baby cannot be named due to a gag order.

BABY'S CRIES

Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Fong Jing Heng said that Garma had been asleep for only 15 minutes when the baby's cries woke her up at around 1.30am.

He said: "The accused suspected that she might have hurt the victim when she pulled victim's hand as the victim did not stop crying."

The baby's cries woke her 33-year-old mother, who went to her room and took her from the maid.

She suspected her baby was in pain when she did not stop crying.

She found out about the injury after taking her to KK Women's and Children's Hospital later that day.

DPP Fong said Garma had admitted to being forceful with the baby as "she was agitated and tired" and did not tell her employer about the injury because she was scared.

In mitigation, Garma, who did not have a lawyer, said she was sorry for accidentally hurting the girl.

It was her first time working as a maid and she had been with her employer for seven months.

For causing grievous hurt by performing a negligent act, she could have been jailed up to six months and fined up to $2,500.

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South Korean woman charged with bribing police not to arrest her for prostitution

Published 8 hours ago
Ng Huiwen

SINGAPORE - A South Korean woman was charged in court on Friday with allegedly bribing five police officers not to arrest her for prostitution.

Hwang Eunmi, 37, had allegedly offered them cash amounting to $1,550.

The offer was rejected by the officers, who reported her to the Corrupt Practices Investigations Bureau (CPIB).

In a statement, the CPIB said: "Singapore adopts a zero tolerance approach towards corruption."

It added that it takes a serious view of any corrupt practices and will not hesitate to take action against any party involved in such acts.

If convicted, Hwang will be fined up to $100, 000, sentenced to up to five years' jail or both.

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Woman auxiliary police officer jailed 6 months for stealing from prostitutes

An auxiliary police officer was jailed six months on Friday (July 3) for stealing $1,430 from three prostitutes.
In May, Pusparani Kuppusamy, 28, an AETOS constable, had been tasked to search three prostitutes arrested for offences under the Women’s Charter.
But as Pusparani was packing their belongings in the polymer bags, she removed the money and kept it in her back trouser pocket.
She later banked some of the money into her sister’s account and spent the rest on herself.

 

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Ex-sports betting trader who tweaked football odds jailed

A former sports betting trader who cheated Singapore Pools of about $200,000 by setting up a scheme with a colleague to manipulate football odds was jailed for four years yesterday.
According to The Straits Times, Ricky Widjaja, 26, admitted to 13 of 52 counts of scheming with Thomas Tong Heng Huat, 32, to use a computer to access a program called Margin Maker 2 (MM2), with the intention to cheat Singapore Pools. District Judge Toh Yung Cheong denied bail for the permanent resident, pending his appeal against the sentence.
The court heard that some time in August 2011, the pair decided to cheat their employer by using MM2 to manipulate the odds for the "total goals: over/under" category of bets for various league and international football matches.
The plan entailed either man working on-shift at the trading room in Singapore Pools' headquarters. The person off-shift would typically place a bet that his conspirator would accept before lowering the odds minutes later. The duo would coordinate their actions by sending messages to each other, thus creating a "sure win" situation for themselves and a corresponding "sure lose" situation for Singapore Pools. The winning tickets would be redeemed at various Singapore Pools outlets.
Their scam went undetected for a substantial number of matches over a period of almost five months. Investigations showed that they employed this tactic for 52 football matches between August 2011 and January 2012.
The scheme was unravelled only after Singapore Pools discovered on Jan 20, 2012 that Widjaja had breached staff regulations by placing bets at an outlet. Their bets ranged between $12,000 and $38,000, with winnings of up to $44,000. After Widjaja was suspended, he deleted text messages and a Microsoft Excel sheet containing details of the offences.
Widjaja's lawyer Melanie Ho made an impassioned plea for a pre-sentence report to be called.
She said that her client had made full restitution not only for the amount he took but also for Thong's share. Thong is now behind bars for five years and four months for similar offences.
Judge Toh declined to call for a pre-sentence report, given the very serious nature of the offences.

 

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When in Rome, do as the Indians do.

Stupid #8 - Parag Khanna - Riots are normal

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Alleged drug kingpin nabbed during CNB op

Saturday, Jul 11, 2015

Five suspected drug offenders, including the alleged leader of a drug syndicate, were arrested yesterday in an operation by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB).

CNB officers also seized 2.31kg of heroin with an estimated street value of more than $160,000.

Early yesterday morning, two Singaporean men, aged 45 and 51, were arrested after they retrieved a plastic bag containing the drugs from a trash bin in Queen Street.

The bag was placed there by a suspected drug courier, a 43-year-old Malaysian man who rode a motorcycle. The man was later arrested at his workplace in Penjuru Road.

Following investigations, the suspected syndicate leader, a 44-year-old Singaporean man, was arrested in North Bridge Road.

Another alleged accomplice was nabbed at the Woodlands Checkpoint while he was trying to leave Singapore in a lorry.

Investigations are ongoing. If convicted, the five men could face the death penalty.

 

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Man bashes lover until she bleeds, loses two teeth

A Malaysian storekeeper was jailed 16 months and ordered to be given three strokes of the cane on Monday (July 13) for bashing his lover until she lost two teeth and suffered multiple facial fractures. The assault took place at Novena Square 2, in front of their two daughters and horrified members of the public. Karunagaran Ratnam, 49, pleaded guilty to one count of voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Ms Kalaivani Sakaran in September 2014. They are not married and have four children. When their 22-year relationship hit the rocks, she began avoiding him. On Sept 14 last year, Karunagaran tracked her down at her workplace near Novena Square 2 and later assaulted her at the shopping mall.

 

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Man gets jail, cane for bashing lover in mall

Elena Chong
The Straits Times
Wednesday, Jul 15, 2015

A storekeeper punched his former lover repeatedly in broad daylight in a shopping mall, while onlookers pleaded with him to stop.

But Malaysian Karunagaran Ratnam, 49, continued pummelling her, knocking out two of her teeth, until she passed out.

Yesterday, Karunagaran was sentenced to 16 months' jail and three strokes of the cane for grievously hurting cleaner Kalaivani Sakaran, 37, also a Malaysian.

The assault occurred at Square 2 in Sinaran Drive, in Novena, on Sept 14 last year.

The victim was estranged from Karunagaran and had been avoiding him for a long time. But that afternoon, he managed to track her down at her workplace.

The court heard the couple had been in a relationship for 22 years but were not married. Between them, they have four children.

When the victim saw Karunagaran, she tried to run but he caught her and punched her in the face and chest repeatedly. He continued his assault despite attempts by onlookers to get him to stop.

She fell to the floor, but he dragged her up and continued punching her.

A member of the public eventually separated him from the victim before the police arrived.

The victim suffered multiple cuts and fractures on her face, and was given hospitalisation leave for about a week.

Karunagaran could have been jailed for up to 10 years.

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