Singaporean Chua Sah May, 48, was sentenced to seven months' jail on Monday (Jan 17) for one count of cheating.
The masks could last her for more than 66 years, the prosecutor said. While the masks were seized from her home by the police, the Temasek Foundation could not accept them for hygiene reasons.
You think 66 years later, Sg still makes wearing masks mandatory for everyone in public?
Chua's work allowed her access to the FINs of both companies' foreign employees, and she stored the information in her hard drive.
When Temasek Foundation distributed the mask kits, Chua wanted more for her own use and decided to use the FINs she had access to for this purpose.
Between June and September, she accessed the information she had in her hard drive and looked for FIN of foreign employees whom she thought had left Singapore or could not enter Singapore because of the pandemic.
She went to Yio Chu Kang Community Club on 397 occasions and keyed in the FINs of these employees to redeem mask kits. She took a total of 397 mask kits, worth S$3,176, in this manner.
A sales manager for Clariant South East Asia filed a police report on Oct 3, 2020, saying he tried to retrieve his mask kit but could not as the system stated he had already done so.
Chua was caught on closed-circuit television footage redeeming three Temasek mask kits from a vending machine on Sep 27.
She was arrested and surrendered 454 mask kits that were in her home to the police.
"However, for hygiene reasons the Temasek Foundation is unable to accept the mask kits," said the prosecutor.
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