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Singapore News - Under the pretence of facilitating a loan deal, a man who was a bankrupt duped a director of three firms into handing over $1.5 million in February 2021. Singaporean Wong Poh Kun, who masterminded the ruse, then transferred $1.25 million to an unnamed third party in... Read more at www.tnp.sg
He was roped in by scammers to work as an 'undercover agent'. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE — A 19-year-old student who posed as a Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) official to help scammers defraud a woman here was sentenced to eight weeks in jail on April 18. Chinese national Li Jiarui, a computer science student at the Singapore Institute of Management, pleaded guilty to two charges. They comprise one count of intentionally aiding unknown people...
Low Jun Xian took upskirt videos of the women when they were adjusting themselves to alight from his vehicle.
SINGAPORE — A man who recruited people to act as “phantom” drivers and help file fraudulent insurance claims based on staged accidents was given a jail sentence on Thursday (Aug 17) of 49 months, or about four years.