Singaporean jailed 15 months for bid to cheat bank

the star 11 Oct 1995 – Singaporean jailed 15 months for bid to cheat bank

 

Singaporean jailed 15 month for bid to cheat bank

KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday – A Singapore businessman who pleaded guilty to trying to cheat the Malaysian-French Bank of $87,500 was jailed 15 months today and placed under police supervision for a year.

Magistrate Aslina  Joned also jailed Lim Kah Soon, 33, for 10 months for having a forged identity card at the city police headquarters here on Aug 1. The sentences are to run concurrently.

Counsel Jerald Gomez said in mitigation that Lim was a Pawn and that he had been pressured by a man called “Ah Keong” to go to the bank to withdraw the money.

He also urged the court to consider the fact that Lim did not resist arrest but gave police “his fullest co-operation.”

Lim had gone to the bank at the UBN Tower in jalan P. Ramlee on july 21 and tried to mislead  bank officer Razali Mohamed Yusuff inti believing that he was authorized to withdraw $87,500 from an account of the Sungai Besi Mines (M) Bhd via a telegraphic transfer.

The money was to be remitted to the bank’s Alor Setar branch from where Lim would withdraw money under the name of Ngu Cheng Leng.

Encik Mohamed checked with Sungai Besi Mines and was informed that no such transaction was made out on the material day and no money was due to a Ngu Cheng Leng.

Encik Mohamed then lodged a police report. Lim travelled to Alor Setar the same day to collect the money and was arrested the next day.

 

THE STAR, OCT 11 1995

 

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the star 11 Oct 1995 – Singaporean jailed 15 months for bid to cheat bank

Cop suspended over claims of fondling youth

the star 21 Feb 2004- Cop suspended over claims of fondling youth

 

This American family appointed this firm to defend their son on a drug-related charge – we worked closely with the American Embassy in this case

The Star

Saturday 21 February 2004

Cop suspended over claims of fondling youth

PETALING JAYA: A 23-year-old constable has been suspended pending investigations into allegations that he molested a male American college student at the Puchong station.

 

The student, in his 20s, of a private college here was picked up from his Subang area home for possession of cannabis recently.

 

In his police report last week, he alleged that the constable came to his lock-up, handcuffed and blindfolded him and took him to a room supposedly to interrogate.

 

There someone unzipped his pants and started fondling his private parts for several minutes.

 

PJ Selatan deputy OCPD Asst Comm Osman Abu Bakar confirmed that a policeman had been suspended for not following procedures while taking out a detainee from the lock-up.

 

It is learned that apart from molesting the student, the ‘person’ had also taunted him about his private parts and sexuality.

The student was later returned to the lock-up and warned not to relate the incident to anyone.

 

He subsequently lodged a police report.

 

During investigations, the student identified the constable as the person who came to the lock-up and took him away.

 

The student, whose parents are in the United States, has been staying here for about 10 years.

 

The Constable was confirmed in his rank three years ago.

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the star 21 Feb 2004- Cop suspended over claims of fondling youth

Robbery gang crippled

PETALING JAYA: A gang specialising in robbing warehouse and construction site offices was smashed by police with the arrest of seven men, including the master mind.

Police recovered goods worth more than $2 million in loot the gang had made off with.

Reports

5 Sept 1992