Two Chinese nationals jailed for stealing from mosque donation boxes
Published on Oct 25, 2013
By Elena Chong
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Two Chinese nationals who travelled here specifically to commit crime were each jailed for five months on Friday for stealing $1,719 from a mosque.
Wei Rengu, 30, and Qin Shi Gang, 29, admitted to the theft at Masjid Sultan at Muscat Street on Oct 10.
An executive officer of the mosque was viewing the CCTV footage that day when he saw Qin fishing money out of a donation box and Wei pretending to take photographs of the surroundings. The pair moved from one donation box to another.
Mr Asmawi Said, 59, immediately went to confront the two men. He saw Qin holding on to some money that he had managed to fish out from the donation box.
