Used car dealer gets four weeks' jail for forgery
Published on Nov 28, 2013
By Elena Chong
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A used car dealer was sentenced to four weeks' jail on Thursday for forging a letter written by a customer to the Land Transport Authority (LTA).
Jerry Tan Kim Huat, 52, of Car Central Automobile, admitted to forging the May 4, 2012 letter by Madam Esther Goh Soo Im, which falsely stated that a Porsche Boxster was wrongly transferred to her before the car loan was approved. He is appealing against the sentence.
The court heard that the two parties had a contractual dispute over the sale and purchase of a used Porsche Boxster. It was agreed that the purchase price of the Porsche which amounted to $110,000 plus fees, would be offset by the trading in of Madam Goh's Mercedes-Benz, leaving a balance of $60,000.
On April 22 last year, Tan transferred the ownership of the Porsche to Madam Goh. He had also obtained a hire-purchase loan from Century Tokyo Leasing for the balance purchase price. But the loan was switched to OCBC Bank which then rejected the application. A dispute arose on the payment of the balance purchase price.
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