Man jailed for cheating Traffic Police
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Source: Linkie
SINGAPORE: For nine years, he managed to cheat the Traffic Police without being detected.
But on Thursday, Lim Tian Pong, the owner of a company which used to maintain the radar camera system the Traffic Police uses to monitor motorists' speeds, was jailed 18 months for cheating and for forgery offences.
The Traffic Police had specifically stated in their scope of requirements that the components for the system must be sent to a surveillance company, Multanova AG in Switzerland, for calibration.
But Lim, the 60-year-old sole-proprietor of Tian Supply and Service Trading, forged certificates and sent the antennas to China instead.
He forged 14 calibration certificates between August 2002 and July 2009.
Lim had created a logo which looked like Multanova AG's and displayed it on the bogus certificates.
The documents also stated that the antennas were supposedly calibrated by somebody known as "C Hauser".
Lim then submitted the fake certificates to the Traffic Police, who paid more than S$94,000 for the calibration services not performed by Multanova AG.
Lim, who was represented by lawyers Subhas Anandan and Sunil Sudheesan, also admitted that he had cheated the Traffic Police of about S$51,000 between March 2000 and March 2004 by using a similar ruse.
In one of the cases, he merely presented the authorities with an invoice stating that the checks done on the antennas were performed in Switzerland.
In his mitigation plea, Mr Anandan said Lim committed the offences as he had lost confidence in Multanova because of the firm's failure to deliver.
However, Deputy Public Prosecutor Magdalene Huang said the offences were premeditated and committed over nine years.
Lim also admitted that he had continued to run his business even though the company's registration with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) had been cancelled on May 2 2006, as he had failed to pay the annual renewal fee.
He only re-registered it on December 10 2008.
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Rather routine piece of crime news..... except for the bit on 'C Hauser'.
Why does this remind me of:
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ho ho ho~~~
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haha gi joe!! Not bad for a 60 year old chap. Must have seen his kids playing with it, that's why.
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My only worry is will any motorists be wrongfully summon because of poor calibration of their speed cameras!
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Originally posted by ahtansh:
My only worry is will any motorists be wrongfully summon because of poor calibration of their speed cameras!
Ah tan ah...It's the antenna that needs to be calibrated, not the speed camera wor...