Former police staff sergeant charged with graft
SINGAPORE: A former police staff sergeant has been charged with corruption.
He allegedly accepted bribes while attached to the Secret Societies Branch of the Criminal Investigation Department.
Court documents showed that on 7 December 2005 and 23 April 2006, Lim
Kay Heng had accepted S$2,000 in cash from gambling operator Chua Chin
Hoe and in return, Lim would give assistance to Chua "in police-related
matters, as and when necessary".
He now faces two counts under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The accused resigned from the police force in 2007.
Under the Corruption Act, he may be fined up to S$100,000 or jailed for five years.
- CNA/vm
Man sentenced to 5 years jail for slashing lover
A man who slashed his lover with a chopper and threw
her three floors down a block of flats has been sentenced to five years
in jail this morning at the High Court.
Diong Tiong Ngo, who's 52, had pleaded guilty last
week to one count of attempted culpable homicide and one count of
voluntarily causing grevious hurt with a dangerous weapon.
He had argued with his 51-year-old Indonesian lover
on November 8 last year, after she threatened to leave him over a
financial dispute.
He then slashed her with a chopper before lifting and flipping her over the parapet outside her Ang Mo Kio flat.
The woman's 14-year-old son was also slashed on his arms when he tried to stop Diong from hurting his mother.
--938Live
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Police investigating housebreaking in Marsiling
Police are investigating a housebreaking and theft that occurred on Monday morning at Blk 136 Marsiling.
Two of the house occupants had left the house key at a corner of their main gate when they left the house.
At about 6.40am, another of the house occupants, an 11-year-old Malay
boy saw a man he did not know, standing at a corner of the living room.
When questioned, the man then told the boy that he was looking for a phone to make a call.
He also alleged that he previously visited the house and had left his phone behind.
He then left the house.
It was later that the house occupants discovered that a handphone and a
video camera totalling 1,150 dollars were missing from the unit.
The suspect is described to be a Malay man in his 40s, about 1.65m tall, and plump.
He was wearing a pale dark green cap and shirt, black pants and was carrying a sports bag.
Witnesses can call the police hotline at 1800-255-0000
--938Live
Youths arrested for attempted robbery
Police have arrested two male youths who had tried to rob a woman in a lift at Holland Close early yesterday morning.
The Caucasian woman had reported the matter to the Police after they let her go as she had no money on her.
Officers from Clementi Police Division managed to establish the
identity of one of the suspects, who was arrested yesterday evening at
his home in Henderson Road.
This led to the arrest of the second suspect later that night at Telok Blangah.
Initial investigations revealed that both suspects are believed to be
involved in a snatch theft at Tiong Bahru and a robbery at Holland
Avenue.
The suspects will be charged in Court tomorrow.
If convicted, they can be sentenced to a maximum imprisonment term of 7 years and be liable to caning.
--938Live
Police bust 2 syndicates involved in sale of fake branded apparel, shoes
SINGAPORE : Police have busted two local syndicates involved in the sale of counterfeit soccer jerseys and shoes in a span of just one week.
The raid, which ended on Tuesday, resulted in the arrest of six men and one woman, aged between 20 and 53 years.
More than 5,000 pieces of soccer jerseys and branded shoes infringing the trademarks of well-known brands were seized.
The estimated street value of the apparel and shoes is S$100,000. They
were taken from a three makeshift trade fair stalls located at Choa Chu
Kang and Serangoon, as well as a repository at Yishun.
Assistant Director of the Specialised Crime Division, CID,
Superintendent Goh Lam Kiong said: "Police take a serious view of
intellectual property rights violations, and will continue to take
strict enforcement action, leveraging on intelligence and other
capabilities, to clamp down hard on the sales and distribution of
counterfeit goods in Singapore.
"Persons involved in the sales and distribution of such counterfeit
goods risk a heavy fine and imprisonment if they are arrested," he
added.
Those found guilty of possessing infringing articles for the purposes
of trade or manufacture could be fined up to S$100,000, or jailed for
up to five years, or both.
- CNA /ls
3 youths believed to be involved in armed robberies arrested
SINGAPORE: Police have arrested three youths aged between 16 and 19 years old who are believed to be involved in a series of armed robberies island-wide.
In recent days, police received six reports of armed robberies committed by three male youths in various parts of Singapore, including Hougang, Bedok Reservoir, Crawford Lane, and Jurong West.
In these cases, the culprits would use knives to threaten the victims into surrendering their valuables.
Simultaneous raids were conducted by police at various locations in Bedok North and Chai Chee.
On October 22 at about 4.30 pm, the first 17-year-old suspect was spotted in the vicinity of Bedok North where he was known to frequent. The officers immediately moved in and placed him under arrest.
Two knives which are believed to have been used in the commission of the robberies were also subsequently recovered from the suspect's house.
Another operation was immediately mounted to apprehend the other two accomplices.
Police managed to locate the second 16-year-old suspect at one of his favourite haunts in the Bedok area.
A parang and a chopper which are believed to belong to the second suspect were also recovered from the vicinity.
The third 19-year-old suspect was finally arrested at his residence in Pasir Ris on October 23.
The three suspects will be charged in court on Saturday.
- CNA/vm
Company and director convicted of abusing tax exemption scheme
Pressure vessels manufacturer, Steel Forming and Rolling Specialists
and its Managing Director, Gan Oh Boon, was convicted of tax evasion
this afternoon.
This is the first company and director to be convicted of abusing a tax exemption scheme for new companies in Singapore.
Investigations revealed that the company set up six related companies in December 2004 to abuse the scheme.
The company included fictitious expenses amounting to some 1.6 million
dollars in its audited statements of accounts for the years 2004 to
2006, although no work or services were performed by them for the
company.
Steel Forming and Rolling Specialists consequently under-reported its
profits by the same amount in its income tax returns for the Years of
Assessment 2005 to 2007.
Investigations also showed that Gan had omitted employment income in
the form of benefits-in-kind, made up of hire-purchase instalments for
his private car and his other private expenses paid for by the company.
Mr Gan was jailed for two weeks and ordered to pay almost 997 thousand dollars in fines and penalties.
The company was ordered to pay over a million dollars in fines and penalties.
--938Live
Serial snatch thief arrested
A
22 year-old man believed to be involved in a series of snatch thefts at
Tampines Street 32 and Street 33 was arrested yesterday.
His first victim was a 59 year-old woman whose handbag was snatched away on 20th October.
The suspect is believed to have committed four other cases of snatch thefts between 21st and 26th October in the same area.
Police noted that the offences were committed between 8 am and 2 pm.
Lone elderly female were targeted.
After conducting stake outs and intensive enquiries, police managed to
arrest the suspect who matched the description given by the victims.
The suspect was behaving suspiciously and may have been planning a similar act before police moved in and apprehended him.
He will be charged in court tomorrow and if convicted faces imprisonment between one to seven years.
He is also liable to be caned.
--938Live
ICA officer charged
A senior immigration officer was charged in court today with accepting more than 1,500 dollars in bribes.
54-year-old Mah Chin Phock faced eight charges of taking bribes in the form of cash and loans between June and November 2007.
Mah was a Senior Immigration and Checkpoints Specialist when he accepted the bribes from a coffee shop owner, Chia Ngee Seng.
Chia, had provided "U-turn" services to female China nationals entering Singapore via Woodlands checkpoint.
These foreign women would go to Malaysia for a short period and return to Singapore to get their social visit passes extended.
Chia had sought the assistance of Mah to facilitate the entry of these China women by conducting less stringent checks on them.
In return, Chia had on eight occasions, given Mah bribes with amounts varying from 100 to 500 dollars.
Chia also bribed Mah's supervisor, Matthew Goh, with 4D tickets.
He did this in return for Goh to turn a blind eye on his colleague's illegal activities.
Goh was sentenced to 3 months in jail in March this year.
And Chia was sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment last week.
If convicted, Mah could be jailed for up to five years or fined up to 100,000 dollars, or both.
--938Live
Former MOM officer charged with cheating, forgery
SINGAPORE: He allegedly ran a food stall without a licence and forged one when he needed to apply for an employment pass for a stall helper.
On Friday, Chye Siew Kok, 59, a former Ministry of Manpower (MOM)
corporate service officer, was charged in court with cheating and
forgery.
In July 2006, Chye had forged a National Environment Agency food stall
licence for his Xing Hua (Putien) Cuisine coffee shop stall at Foch
Road, which he operated with a business partner, to deceive MOM.
The next month, Chye told MOM twice that his stall had a valid licence, so that he could obtain the employment pass.
If convicted, Chye can be jailed up to seven years with a fine, on
each count of cheating. For forgery, the maximum jail term is 10 years,
with a fine.
- TODAY/so
Break-in at Clementi
A family lost some 8,000 dollars worth of jewellery and more than 1,000
dollars cash after their home was broken into on Friday.
They had secured their flat located on the second floor of Block 343,
Clementi Avenue 5 before leaving for work at around 830 am that day.
The mother came home at around 630 pm to find a drawer and a cabinet in her room ransacked.
She noticed that some valuables were missing and the window grilles had been forced open.
The woman informed her daughter about the break-in who came home and found more valuables missing.
If you have any information on this case, you can call the police hotline at 188 255 00 00.
--938Live
Foreigners peddling illegal cigarettes arrested
SINGAPORE: Officers from the Singapore Customs and Immigration & Checkpoints Authority have arrested 15 Indonesians in an operation to flush out peddlers of illegal cigarettes at Yew Tee Industrial Estate.
Fourteen of them were illegal immigrants and they have been charged in court.
The foreigners were aged between 25 and 38 years.
Over 1,000 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes worth S$9,400 were seized in the operation last Tuesday.
The unpaid duty and GST came close to S$8,500.
- CNA/ir
7 employers charged for breaching Employment Act
SINGAPORE: Seven employers were charged in the Subordinate Courts this week for offences under the Employment Act.
The Ministry of Manpower said five were charged for failing to provide their workers with the statutory benefits under the Act.
These included failing to or under-providing their employees with annual leave, rest day, and other infringements.
Two other employers were charged for not paying salaries to their workers.
One employer was also convicted this week for infringements under the Act.
A cleaning company, Lian Cheng Contracting and its Director Cher Peng
Ho, failed to provide annual leave for four employees over a period of
two to four years.
There were also unauthorised deductions from the salaries of three employees between January and April 2008.
Each pleaded guilty to 15 charges.
The company was fined S$8,500.
Cher was fined S$5,500.
MOM said since January, 20 companies had been prosecuted for Employment Act infringements.
- CNA/vm
Snatch Theft at Blk 573 Ang Mo Kio
A woman in her mid 20s lost her handphone and wallet to a snatch thief in Ang Mo Kio.
The incident happened at Blk 573 at around 930 pm last Friday.
The woman was on the phone when a man came from behind and pushed her to the ground.
She fell and dropped both her handphone and wallet.
The man picked up both items and ran off towards Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10.
The suspect is about 1.7 metres tall and has fair complexion.
He was last seen wearing a black jacket and white bermudas.
Witnesses of the incident are to call the Police Hotline at 1800-255-0000.
--938Live
Woman loses laptop in NUS
A woman in her early 20s lost her laptop worth some 2,000 dollars at the National University of Singapore on Monday afternoon.
She had placed it on a table in a study room at Prince George's Park
Residences before leaving the premises for lunch at around 3pm that
day.
She found the laptop missing when she returned about 30 minutes later.
If you have any information on this case, you can call the police hotline at 1800 255 00 00.
--938Live
Thief takes $130 from elderly man
An elderly man in his 70s lost 130 dollars to a thief last Friday.
He had entered a lift with the suspect at the void deck of Block 467, North Bridge Road at around 7.45 am that day.
The suspect stood facing the lift doors.
When they opened at the fourth floor, the suspect turned around,
slipped his hands into the man's pockets to take out the money and fled
the scene.
The suspect is a slim, fair-complexioned man who's about 1.7 metres tall.
He was last seen wearing a white t-shirt, long pants and a sliver necklace.
Witnesses can call the police hotline at 1800 255 00 00.
--938Live
Woman lost $260 to a snatch thief
A woman in her early 40s lost more than 260 dollars in cash to a snatch thief in broad daylight last Saturday.
She had withdrawn some money from an automated-teller machine at Rochor Centre along Queen Street shortly after noon that day.
The woman was walking away from the ATM when the suspect approached her from behind.
He snatched away her money and wallet before fleeing towards Bugis MRT station.
The suspect is a tall and slim dark-complexioned man.
He was last seen wearing a black t-shirt and light blue jeans.
If you have any information on this case, you can call the police hotline at 1800 255 00 00.
--938Live
Two men charged with attempting to get sexual favours
SINGAPORE: Two men have been charged, separately, with attempting to obtain sexual favours in return for turning a blind eye on smoking offenders.
One of them is 32-year-old Mohamed Rafi Abdul Alim who was
employed by Certis-CISCO Security and attached to the National
Environment Agency (NEA) as an enforcement officer.
Along with three other officers, he approached a girl whom he saw
smoking with her friends at the basement carpark of Queensway Shopping
Centre in March this year.
The girl and her friends were in school uniforms. The officers then
took down the students' particulars and gave them a verbal warning.
However, shortly after this, Mohamed Rafi allegedly sent the girl a
text message asking for sexual services. It is believed that he
promised not to refer her to the relevant authorities should she give
in to his request.
42-year-old Koh Hui Chong, a former NEA officer, faced a similar
charge. He noticed a boy in his school uniform smoking at a playground
in late April last year.
Koh approached the student and informed him that he will be booked for
under-aged smoking. He also asked the boy for his parents' contact
details so that he could speak to them about the matter.
However, the student gave him false information about his father.
In response to this, it is believed that Koh approached the boy's
school to obtain the details even though he was not authorised to do
so.
Koh then allegedly contacted the boy's mother in early May last
year, asking for sexual services in return for not taking action
against her son.
If convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act, both men could
each be jailed up to five years and fined a maximum of S$100,000.
- CNA/so
Five men in court for alleged rape of 17-year-old girl
SINGAPORE: Five young men, aged between 17 and 20, are in the dock in the High Court for the rape and sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl.
The alleged incident took place on December 26 last year in a flat in Woodlands.
Prosecutors alleged on Tuesday that the accused persons got the victim
drunk in the apartment, then took turns to rape and sexually assault
her.
The victim, who is now 18, is known to one of the accused.
More than 50 witnesses, including the victim, her father and
boyfriend, will be called by the prosecution during the eight-day
trial.
- TODAY/so
Man sentenced to jail, fine for stealing motorcycles and riding them without license
A 23-year old man has been sentenced to three years’ jail and fined
4,000 dollars for stealing five motorcycles which he rode without a
license.
Shukur Hashim stole the first motorcycle on 28th September this year.
The owner had left it at a multi-storey car park at 406A Admiralty Drive at around 830 am that day.
Shukur was there about 4 hours later and managed to start it after inserting a pair of scissors into the ignition.
Shukur stole four more motorcycles between 29th September and 25th October this year.
Only this time, he had accomplices to act as lookouts.
The motorcycles were taken from car parks in Yishun, Margaret Drive and Woodlands.
On 27th October, police officers arrested one of the accomplices who was in possession of one of the stolen motorcycles.
With the information gathered from him, officers managed to nabbed Shukur and another accomplice.
For theft of motor vehicles, those convicted can be jailed for up to seven years.
--938Live
Serial Car Rental Scammer Arrested
A man has been charged in court for cheating in a series of car rental scams.
Police arrested the 22-year-old on Friday evening (20 November 2009 at about 6pm) at Block 68 Geylang Bahru.
The authorities also seized car rental agreements, photocopies of the Identity Cards of his victims, a laptop, duplicate motor-vehicle ignition keys and related documents.
Preliminary investigation revealed that in some cases, the culprit
offered to rent cars to his victims but would fail to deliver the cars
after receiving payment.
In other cases, he's believed to have entered into agreements with car owners to rent out their vehicles.
But after receiving the vehicles, he would rent them to unsuspecting car rental customers and pocket the rental fee, without giving a portion of the fee to the car owner as agreed.
He would also not return the car to owners when requested.
If found guilty, he can be sentenced to a maximum punishment of 10 years jail and a fine.
--938Live
87-year-old woman found dead
An 87-year-old woman was found dead at a house along Farleigh Avenue in Serangoon Gardens.
Police found the body lying motionless in the house at around 3 this morning.
A 23-year-old foreign domestic worker has been arrested in connection with the case.
She is currently assisting the Police in investigations.
--938Live
Lead aircraft technician from SIA engineering charged with forgery
A Lead Aircraft Technician from SIA Engineering was charged in court with forgery this morning.
Thirty-eight year old Kevin Sim Kar Yong was found to have forged a letter in July last year.
The letter was addressed to a Senior Airworthiness Manager, Quek Tong Huat, from the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore.
Sim tried to trick the manager into thinking that the letter was written by another colleague Lim Joo San.
In the letter, he offered to bribe the manager with an unspecified sum
of money in exchange for allowing Lim to pass the Aircraft Maintenance
Technician examination.
If found guilty, Sim faces a fine or imprisonment of up to four years or to both.
--938Live
Counterfeit electronic goods syndicate busted
Police have broken a counterfeit electronic goods syndicate at Sim Lim Square following a 14-hour operation.
Officers from the Criminal Investigation Department conducted raids at 12 outlets within the mall yesterday morning.
Ten men and five women were arrested for possessing suspected
counterfeit items with an estimated street value of 320 thousand
dollars for the purpose of trade.
The 15 are believed to be part of the same syndicate; two of them are believed to be the syndicate leaders.
Items seized were mainly mobile phones purportedly from well-known
brands as well as suspected counterfeit stickers and documents of
renowned electronic products.
Investigations are still ongoing.
--938Live