Rajagopal Malini, 48-years-old, was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment for a spate of offences that took place between July to September last year, including forging a termination letter to claim money from the Covid-19 Support Grant.
What happened?
Rajagopal was working as an administrative officer for Collier International Consultancy and Valuation, which was managing Euphony Gardens, a condominium where she was working at.
She had forged a letter dated 1 August 2020 with the Auiphone Gardens letterhead and on her online application for the grant, she used a fake name for the contact person and used her own office number.
Her crime was discovered then the MSF called the condo manager who told them that the letter of termination was fake.
The condo manager then reported to the police in October saying that Rajagopal had stolen money that she was supposed to collect for the condo’s management corporation strata title fees.
A total of $4,000 was pocketed by her and she was found out when a resident was notified that he didn’t make payment when he had passed the money to Rajagopal.
Stolen credit card
Rajagopal also used a stolen credit card, which was taken from a motorcycle’s IU by her son’s friends (aged 13 and 14) to buy more than $13,500 worth of things.
She went to a 7-Eleven convenience store near Block 106 Hougang Avenue 1 to buy cigarettes, liquor, and gift cards, which amounted to a total of $1,142.20
She then went to Nex for a shopping spree, spending about $12,400 with her daughter and the friends of her kids.