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April 21, 2009
Man jailed for IC-scam
By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
Teo Boon Hui, 42, who faced 17 charges under the National Registration Act, pleaded guilty to seven counts of using identity cards to file for marriages with China women. --PHOTO: ST
A MAN who made use of Singaporean men's identity cards to file for marriages with Chinese nationals was jailed for six months on Tuesday.
Teo Boon Hui, 42, who faced 17 charges under the National Registration Act, pleaded guilty to seven counts of using identity cards to file for marriages with China women between July 2005 and January 2006.
He did this to help the Chinese nationals extend their social visit passes from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority.
A district court heard that he came to know one Lim Kien Ping @ Ah Bui who operated a syndicate helping China women get extensions of their visit passes.
Lim told him that he could earn a few hundred dollars for getting the visit passes for the Chinese nationals. All he had to do was to get identity cards from Singaporean men and use their personal particulars to file a notice of marriage with the women through the Registry of Marriages website.
Seeing that the arrangement was lucrative, Teo agreed to join in the 'business''.
He would charge female PRCs between $100 and $400. For the Singaporean men whose identity cards he used, he would give them about $150 if the extension was successful.
Teo, who had 10 other charges considered, could have been fined up to $10,000 and/or jailed for up to 10 years on each charge.
April 21, 2009
Man jailed for IC-scam
By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
Teo Boon Hui, 42, who faced 17 charges under the National Registration Act, pleaded guilty to seven counts of using identity cards to file for marriages with China women. --PHOTO: ST
A MAN who made use of Singaporean men's identity cards to file for marriages with Chinese nationals was jailed for six months on Tuesday.
Teo Boon Hui, 42, who faced 17 charges under the National Registration Act, pleaded guilty to seven counts of using identity cards to file for marriages with China women between July 2005 and January 2006.
He did this to help the Chinese nationals extend their social visit passes from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority.
A district court heard that he came to know one Lim Kien Ping @ Ah Bui who operated a syndicate helping China women get extensions of their visit passes.
Lim told him that he could earn a few hundred dollars for getting the visit passes for the Chinese nationals. All he had to do was to get identity cards from Singaporean men and use their personal particulars to file a notice of marriage with the women through the Registry of Marriages website.
Seeing that the arrangement was lucrative, Teo agreed to join in the 'business''.
He would charge female PRCs between $100 and $400. For the Singaporean men whose identity cards he used, he would give them about $150 if the extension was successful.
Teo, who had 10 other charges considered, could have been fined up to $10,000 and/or jailed for up to 10 years on each charge.
