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Feb 11, 2010
Law clerk jailed 7 years
<!-- by line --> By Khushwant Singh
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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> A LAW clerk forged payment vouchers to misappropriate $1.55 million to feed her gambling habit. For this and counterfeiting stamp duty certificates, Irene Koh Lay Hong was jailed for seven years and two months on Thursday. A district court heard that the conveyancing clerk had siphoned more than $1.3 million from the Sterling Law Corporation to pay off casino ship junket operators between June 2007 and December 2008. She then resigned when directors of the firm became suspicious. Police were called in and investigations revealed that the 44-year-old had cheated other law firms of some $250,000 earlier. The total number of offences added up to 123. Koh has returned $155,300. She also committed a further 14 counterfeiting charges so as to escape paying $234,000 in stamp duties.
Feb 11, 2010
Law clerk jailed 7 years
<!-- by line --> By Khushwant Singh
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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> A LAW clerk forged payment vouchers to misappropriate $1.55 million to feed her gambling habit. For this and counterfeiting stamp duty certificates, Irene Koh Lay Hong was jailed for seven years and two months on Thursday. A district court heard that the conveyancing clerk had siphoned more than $1.3 million from the Sterling Law Corporation to pay off casino ship junket operators between June 2007 and December 2008. She then resigned when directors of the firm became suspicious. Police were called in and investigations revealed that the 44-year-old had cheated other law firms of some $250,000 earlier. The total number of offences added up to 123. Koh has returned $155,300. She also committed a further 14 counterfeiting charges so as to escape paying $234,000 in stamp duties.