Serious Police Report Filed After $250k Found Stolen From Coffers In Hougang!!! Guess Which Organization?

[JohnTan]

SINGAPORE — The Singapore Premier League kicked off on Saturday (Feb 23) with the AIA Community Shield at the Jalan Besar Stadium, but already one of its clubs has found itself in the headlines for the wrong reasons.

Hougang United Football Club, one of nine clubs in the professional football league, has filed a police report against an employee after losing some S$250,000 from its coffers.

An administrative staff member had allegedly taken the money from the clubhouse and its office in December last year, TODAY has learnt. She has since admitted to taking the money and has been arrested by the police.

When contacted, Hougang United general manager Matthew Tay confirmed that the club had lodged a police report, but declined further comment.


Responding to queries from TODAY, a Football Association of Singapore (FAS) spokesperson said: "The Football Association of Singapore is aware of this matter, and had raised various inquiries with the Club.

“A police report had been made, and the police have also arrested a Club staff in connection with this matter.”

TODAY understands that the missing funds were from the club’s jackpot operations, which had previously been reported to have seen surpluses of over S$2 million annually.

National football governing body FAS is also seeking clarifications from Hougang United on its financial governance with regard to this matter, TODAY has learnt.

Six of the nine league clubs currently run jackpot machines at their clubhouses: Albirex Niigata, Balestier Khalsa, Geylang International, Home United, Hougang United and Warriors FC.

Clubhouses with jackpot operations came under scrutiny in April 2017 when three local football clubs — Hougang United, Tiong Bahru Football Club (TBFC) and Woodlands Wellington — were raided by the police.

This was prompted by Sport Singapore filing a police report against National Football League side TBFC for suspected misuse of club funds and a purported attempt by a senior club official to obstruct the completing of audits of the league’s sit-out clubs.

TBFC and Hougang chairman Bill Ng and his wife Bonnie Wong, former FAS general secretary Winston Lee and former FAS president Zainudin Nordin were subsequently arrested.

Details that emerged from the case also shocked members of the fraternity, as TBFC was found to have earned S$37 million from its clubhouse operations while spending just S$169,000 on its football team.

A subsequent Government crackdown on such facilities saw a fifth of the 82 clubs running jackpot machines affected by tightened regulations announced in July 2017.

The new measures included: Reducing the quota for fruit machines, raising the minimum age for entry to jackpot rooms from 18 to 21 years old and limiting the operations hours of the facilities.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had said in November 2017 that seven clubs did not meet the criteria to operate fruit machines and were given six-month interim permits to wind down their jackpot operations by April last year.

Gombak United Football Club, Tanjong Pagar United Football Club, Singapore Xin Hua Sports Club and TBFC were among the clubs that did not meet that criteria.

TODAY has reached out to MHA for comments on Hougang United’s latest incident.

https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/s250000-missing-hougang-united-football-club-staff-arrested

 

[SBFNews]

how did she manage to do it? no accomplice?

 

[no_faith]

Spending 169k is on local domestic football team is over spending, should stand trial.
Over spending billions on yog bo tai ji.

 

[laksaboy]

Singapore Premier League

Nothing 'premier' about the S-League. You can polish shit as much as you want, but it's still shit.

It's a brainchild of short fart Mah Bow Tan.

Mah Bow Tan also initiated the farce known as Goal 2010:

http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/speeches/view-html?filename=1998112705.htm

8 1999 is also an important year as we will launch our blueprint for "Goal 2010, Singapore in the World Cup". Let us not kid ourselves. The road to World Cup 2010 is going to be long and rough and tough. There are many who say that this is a dream, that it is "mission impossible", and that we are crazy. I read an ad for Apple Computers which said "Only the people crazy enough to change the world are the ones who do".

9 We do not intend to change the world, but our task is no less difficult, so we need more crazy people. I prefer to call them "believers", people who dare to dream and to make dreams come true, people who are crazy enough to change the world rather than watch the world go by. The FAS has set up two task forces to brainstorm and come up with ideas on how we can achieve Goal 2010. They will be presenting their ideas at a public forum next month to gather feedback.
I call on all football loving Singaporeans to give them your support. It will be the first step in a journey of a thousand miles towards Goal 2010.

10 One big stepping stone towards achieving Goal 2010 is to make the S-League a success. With a successful S-League, we can attract more promising young players, train them and nurture them, and expose them and equip them with the necessary skills and experience. The fans have a major part to play in this. If we want our players to deliver exciting football in the Tiger Beer S-League matches, our fans should be there to give them their 100% support.

11 Local football should not be shunned and replaced by English or Italian football just because television gives more coverage to Manchester United or Juventus, or newspapers give more space to Beckham or Ronaldo. At the end of the day, we must have our own great clubs like Manchester United or Juventus, and our kids must have their own local heroes like Beckham or Ronaldo. Fans and players --- it is a symbiotic relationship. One cannot do without the other.

 

[KuanTi01]

I must say this 24 year old Malaysian lass has a huge appetite!

 

[laksaboy]

This one?

 

[50000]

she must have learnt everything from her chairman.....