Woman cheats colleagues of over $100,000 with fake sob story
AsiaOne
Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011
A storekeeper told her colleagues her younger brother needed money for urgent heart surgery.
Ng Lay Har, 42, managed to borrow $136,300 from 15 colleagues between June 2008 to January 2010 for her gambling debts.
Ng told her colleagues that her brother was working in Thailand and had fallen very ill. He was actually in jail in Thailand for drug offences.
She pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four counts of cheating. Eleven other cheating offences will be taken into consideration by the judge when she is sentenced in January 2012.
Ng confessed that she resorted to cheating her colleagues because of the debts she had accumulated on 4-D lottery.
She spent $10,000 a week on the lottery in hopes of striking it big to repay her loans. However, her losses grew larger.
She was working for label maker Zephry in Woodlands Terrace when she was arrested in July 2010.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Ma Han Feng said the sentence must take into consideration the fact that Ng had cheated colleagues of a large amount, but the restitution only came up to $29,300.
Defence counsel Lim Kia Tong asked for a lenient sentence, saying that Ng was a first offender.
Ng, a mother of three, had worked for the company for 26 years before being forced to resign after her cheating scam. She currently works as a hawker assistant.
AsiaOne
Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011
A storekeeper told her colleagues her younger brother needed money for urgent heart surgery.
Ng Lay Har, 42, managed to borrow $136,300 from 15 colleagues between June 2008 to January 2010 for her gambling debts.
Ng told her colleagues that her brother was working in Thailand and had fallen very ill. He was actually in jail in Thailand for drug offences.
She pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four counts of cheating. Eleven other cheating offences will be taken into consideration by the judge when she is sentenced in January 2012.
Ng confessed that she resorted to cheating her colleagues because of the debts she had accumulated on 4-D lottery.
She spent $10,000 a week on the lottery in hopes of striking it big to repay her loans. However, her losses grew larger.
She was working for label maker Zephry in Woodlands Terrace when she was arrested in July 2010.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Ma Han Feng said the sentence must take into consideration the fact that Ng had cheated colleagues of a large amount, but the restitution only came up to $29,300.
Defence counsel Lim Kia Tong asked for a lenient sentence, saying that Ng was a first offender.
Ng, a mother of three, had worked for the company for 26 years before being forced to resign after her cheating scam. She currently works as a hawker assistant.
