Year 2005
Tag: Crime
City Harvest Church Founder Probed
Monday, 31st May 2010
18 individuals linked to the City Harvest Church (CHC), including church founder Pastor Kong Hee and his wife, Sun Ho are called up by the Office of the Commissioner of Charities (COC) and the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) of the Singapore Police. They are to assist in investigations, after receiving complaints alleging the misuse of church funds.
Financial Controller Jailed For Cooking The Books
Friday, 28th May 2010
Alex Ng Soon Heng, the former group financial controller of JEL Corporation has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for his part in a racket designed to fraudulently inflate the company's profits. The 33-year-old man pleaded guilty to eight charges under the Penal Code and Securities and Futures Act, after being accused of helping to produce and tailor documents that artificially boosted his company's profits by about $6.4 million in the 2006 financial year.
Indonesian Man Arrested At Tanah Merah Checkpoint
Saturday, 22nd May 2010
A 49-year old Indonesian man was arrested at Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal checkpoint for not giving accurate report of currencies. He had S$80,000 of cash with him.
Arrested For Selling Pirated Movies
Friday, 23rd April 2010
Singapore Police napped 14 people, aged between 21 and 34 years old, for distribution of pirated movies at nine locations within Sim Lim Square. The police confiscated hard disks pre-loaded with pirate movies worth an estimated $160,000 on the streets. If found guilty of selling or distributing products that infringe copyright these 14 suspects could be fined up to $10,000 per article, with a maximum of $100,000 for all items, or they could be jailed for up to 5 years, or both.
Robbers Hit Jewellery Shop In Bedok
Friday, 23rd April 2010
Three armed men got away with about a million dollars worth of jewellery at about 3pm in Bedok Central Block 210. The three masked men dressed in black hold up Yong Sheng Goldsmith for two minutes and grabbed bags full of jewellery. The men were on two motorbikes when they disappeared from the scene.
Hotel's Boss Charged For Facilitating Vice
Wednesday, 21st April 2010
Under regulation 24 of the Hotels Licensing Regulations, no licensee of a hotel should allow any person whom he knows or has reason to believe is a prostitute to occupy a room in the hotel or to frequent the premises. With that note, the police have brought charges against the hotel licensee, Siah Chen Long, of Shing Hotel with is located along Kitchener Road. This is sending a strong signal to errant hotel operators to clean up their act
Man Fined For Bringing In Toy Guns
Tuesday, 20th April 2010
Zainuddin Abdul Kader, 28-year old male, who imported four toy guns into Singapore without a permit was fined $15,000. Zainuddin was in Hongkong for a holiday in March 2009 where he paid HK$7,000 (S$1,200) for four toy guns from shop selling replica toy guns. The shop owner placed some of the dismantled parts of the toy guns into the model airplane kit boxes and Zainuddin declared the items as 'model kits'' and to air-mail them back to Singapore. He was caught when Singapore Post discovered it was a toy gun and reported to the police.
Contraband Cigarettes Seized At Woodlands Checkpoint
Tuesday, 20th April 2010
Officers from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) and the Singapore Customs seized nearly Ten Thousands cartons of contraband cigarettes worth nearly One Singapore Dollars at Woodlands Checkpoint. The loot was hidden in a Malaysia-registered lorry which was carrying 789 pieces of plywood from Malaysia into Singapore. A 31-year-old Malaysian Lorry Driver was arrested. If convicted of dealing with contraband cigarettes, first-time offenders could be jailed a maximum of three years and fined up to twenty times the amount of duty evaded.
Deputy-CEO Jailed For Cooking The Books
Thursday, 15th April 2010
The 37-year-old Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of JEL Corporation (Holdings) Limited, a public listed company dealing in photographic and IT products, was sentenced to 12 months jail and fined S$100,000 for his creativity. Mr Wee Teck Han has pleaded guilty to conspired with two of his colleagues to falsify (cook) the company's accounts (books) and inflated its profits by more than S$4.2 million.
Police Raided Budget Hotels In Kovan
Thursday, 1st April 2010
A Police raided two budget hotels at Kovan on April Fools Day 2010 and led to the arrest of 12 female Chinese nationals for vice-related crime. The suspects had earlier advertise their sexual services on the Internet.
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