Ganesan A/L Gunasagaran (“Ganesan”), a 33-year-old Malaysian Senior Security Officer pleaded guilty April 21) to extortion and two other charges of receiving gratification by posing as a Police officer.
He has been sentenced to two years and three months in jail as well as three strokes of the cane.
Background
On 19 October 2021, Ganesan was deployed at the SeaHill Condominium (“SeaHill”) located at 119 West Coast Crescent as a Senior Security Officer, where he committed the following offences:
Corruptly attempting to obtain gratification from an individual, who had entered SeaHill without checking in using the TraceTogether application, as an inducement to not take action against the said individual.
Putting that same individual in fear of harm in order to extort a sum of S$10,000, by stating that the said individual will be investigated for illegal entry into SeaHill and for having sex with a student inside a toilet at SeaHill.
The man that was extorted is a 29-years-old Japanese teacher who worked in Singapore, the Japanese woman is 26-years old
Impersonating a police officer, by representing to the same individual that he was a high-ranking undercover officer of the ‘Singapore Police Licensing Sector’.