Fined for swiping gaming chip
A MAN who picked up another person's gaming chip at Resorts World Sentosa casino earlier this month was fined $2,000 on Tuesday.
Truck driver Lai Ken Khiong, 44, pleaded guilty to dishonestly misappropriating a $500 chip belonging to Ms Zhao Hua, 35, at RWS on June 6.
The court heard that Ms Zhao, an assistant sales and marketing manager, had accidentally dropped the $500 chip while gaming at a baccarat table that evening.
Lai saw the chip on the floor and immediately picked it up. He walked away.
A woman saw this and alerted Ms Zhao who went after Lai and asked if he had taken her chip. He denied it. Ms Zhao then alerted the casino security.
When detained, Lai had various chips totalling $178, which was what he was left with after using the $500 chip to gamble at a blackjack table.
He could have been jailed for up to two years and/or fined.
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S.African casino cheat jailed
A SOUTH African businessman who cheated a casino of $14,000 last month was jailed for seven months on Tuesday.
Sibongile Arthur Mgxashe, 33, admitted to deceiving dealers on duty at the roulette table at Resorts World Sentosa casino by intentionally placing chips worth $200 on the winning bets after the results were announced on May 20 and 21.
On both occasions, he received a payout of chips worth $7,000.
A district court heard that Mgxashe arrived here on May 16 to buy clothes for his business in South Africa. He left for Genting Highlands, Malaysia on the same day, and returned two days later after having lost US$2,000 playing blackjack and roulette.
As a result, he decided to 'past post' - which entails placing a bet on the winning number after it has been called - to recoup some losses.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Gay Hui Yi told District Judge Thian Yee Sze that there were aggravating factors in this case. The offences, she said, were pre-meditated and the total amount involved was $31,525, of which only $8,032 had been recovered.
Three charges of theft and one of attempted cheating were taken into consideration. Mgxashe could have been jailed for up to 10 years and fined for each count of cheating.
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Casino chip thief jailed
AN UNEMPLOYED man who stole a woman's $400 gaming chip at the Resorts World Sentosa casino was jailed for 12 weeks on Thursday.
Khoo Chin Poo, 39, admitted to stealing from Ms Tang Yuan, 42, at a baccarat table on April 25.
He also admitted trying to steal cash from a bag belonging to cabby Cheng Kiat Liang, 55, at Yio Chu Kang stadium on March 26 and was given a concurrent four weeks' jail.
A district court heard that Ms Tang had placed two bets of $100 chips in the baccarat game and won.
When the winning bet went unclaimed, Khoo took the opportunity to claim the winnings of four $100 cash chips.
He then gambled away $375 in a roulette game. When he wanted to cash out the remaining $25, he was detained by a security officer.
Khoo, who has a gaming conviction, could have ben jailed for up to three years and jailed for theft.
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3 convicted of casino theft
TWO men and a woman were convicted of theft of gaming chips from casinos on Wednesday.
Carpenter Chen ShuChun, 39, was jailed for two weeks after he admitted to stealing two pieces of $100 chips from Mr Tan Wee Soon, 63, at Marina Bay Sands casino on June 25. A magistrate's court heard that the victim was playing roulette when he went to sit on a chair in between another roulette table where he had also placed his bet.
Chen, a Chinese national, took the opportunity to shift Mr Tan's $200 bet from the red colour box to the third column bet without consent. The victim found his winning bet and the $400 chips he was supposed to get missing and informed the croupier.
Meanwhile, Chen had claimed his winning of $600 from the third column bet and left. He subsequently gambled away the money. He was arrested on July 5 at the casino.
In the same court, another Chinese national Qu Lihua, 43, a study mama, was fined a total of $6,000 for theft of gaming chips worth $1,000 and $750 from two men at Resorts World Sentosa casino on May 18 and June 10 respectively.
A Singaporean freelance employment agent, Thio Sin Huan, 60, was fined a total of $4,000 for theft of two $25 chips at RWS casino on May 4. Another two similar charges were taken into consideration. The maximum penalty for theft is a jail term of up to three years and a fine.
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18 year old fined for stealing from casino
An 18-year-old Malaysian was fined $3,000 for stealing $7,400 worth of items from the Marina Bay Sands casino in May.
Tey Chin Wei, who was working in Singapore as a hairstylist, went to the casino to gamble on the afternoon of May 1.
He lost almost all the money he had brought with him.
At 2.15am the next day, when he was at the roulette section, he noticed a woman placing her branded handbag behind her on the seat of her chair.
Tey decided to steal it.
He walked to the male toilet with the handbag and took $600 cash, $600 worth of gambling chips and an iPhone worth $1,200 from it.
Tey left the $5,000 handbag in the toilet.
He was stopped by a security officer who checked on his identification and age when he returned to the casino.
Tey was escorted out of the casino when it was found out that he was underaged.
That’s when the woman noticed her missing handbag and reported it to the casino.
Tey was arrested later that day.
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Casino thief struck twice
CHEONG Yong Heng was so brazen, he returned to steal more chips from a Thai national at the Marina Bay Sands casino on the afternoon of June 15.
The 36-year-old was fined a total of $2,000 on two theft charges on Thursday.
A district court heard that closed-circuit television footage showed Cheong standing behind a Thai woman playing Sic-Bo - a game of three dice, more commonly known as 'tai sai'.
While she was engrossed in the gaming, he unzipped her handbag, which was slung over her shoulder, and stole four $25 chips at about 2.30pm. An hour later, he returned and took two more $25 chips from her handbag.
The victim became aware of the theft at 3.30pm when she noticed that her handbag was unzipped and some of her chips were missing. She informed the casino staff, who then checked the CCTV footage.
Cheong was still in the casino and was detained by security staff two hours later. He surrendered four $25 chips to the police and later made restitution of $50 to the victim.
Cheong could have been jailed up to three years and/or fined up to $10,000.
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Casino opens, crime start coming in.
Stole chips from both casinos
AN IRANIAN stole chips amounting to $200 from a roulette table at the Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) just before noon on July 27.
Four hours later, he was up to the same tricks at the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) casino.
This time he was nabbed and on Thursday, Aminijam Amin, 30, was jailed for a week.
A district court heard that the Iranian was at RWS when he noticed a player placing a $100 chip on the number 36 on the roulette table.
When the player went to another table to check on his wager there, Amin moved the chip to another bet on 'Red' instead.
It won and Amin pocketed the $200 in chips and left the casino soon after.
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