SINGAPORE — A 36-year-old was on Friday (June 4) fined S$6,000 after she used her company’s debit card to make dozens of unauthorised transactions totalling S$6,283 within six months.
Juliana Dawood, a former operations manager at consultancy firm Thinkplace, spent the money mostly on food orders from delivery application Deliveroo, private-hire car rides and online shopping in 2019 as she was strapped for cash.
She pleaded guilty in court to one count of criminal breach of trust.
For sentencing, the court took into consideration a second charge of unauthorised access to computer material, in relation to using another woman’s debit card to make online food delivery orders. No further details were given.
Juliana worked at Thinkplace from September 2018 to July 2019.
She was one of six people entrusted with a DBS bank Business Advance debit card, which she used to make work-related purchases.
From January to July 2019, Juliana made 87 unauthorised transactions amounting to S$4,283 for personal purposes, including rides on transport service Grab.
She also bought a plane ticket from Singapore budget airline Scoot for S$712, and spent S$169 at event-ticketing service Sistic and S$490 at travel agency WeekendGoWhere as part of these unauthorised transactions.
On July 5, 2019, she further used the debit card to transfer S$2,000 from Thinkplace’s bank account to her own, to settle rent and other personal expenses.
Juliana left the firm soon afterwards.
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