Retiree jailed for cheating stall owner by posing as NEA officer
Published on May 28, 2014 12:30 PM
By Elena Chong
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SINGAPORE - A retiree who posed as an officer from the National Environment Agency was jailed for six weeks on Wednesday, for cheating a stall owner.
Ng Kok Heng, 67, pleaded guilty to cheating stall owner Teo Chye Cheok, 48, of $300 by representing himself as an NEA officer at Bai Sheng food court in Woodlands Drive 50, on April 22 this year.
A district court heard that Ng found the victim's contact number from a newspaper classified advertisement and called him that day.
Claiming to be an NEA officer, he told the victim that NEA was looking for donations to help elderly people, as well as to help build an incense burner around the food court that the stall was located in.
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