Four men were charged in court on Wednesday, July 28, for transmitting obscene materials through a Telegram group “Sam’s lots of CB collection”
The group contained alot of leaked sex videos, nudity pictures of women and private videos circulated without the women’s consent.
These are the accused:
Wong Ming Jun, 28, was given 11 charges for possession and transmitting obscene materials. He is also accused of having 2400 obscene videos and 1880 obscene images.
Tan Yeow Chong, 40, was given 7 similar charges. He is also accused of possessing almost 20,000 obscene videos and 7000 obscene images.
Yee Wing Kay, 46, received 10 charges, and was accused of have 18 obscene videos and 72 obscene images.
Anthony Fernandez, 30, was handed 6 charges, and accused of having 118 obscene videos and 406 obscene photos.
Police statement showed that a report was made against the telegram group on Oct 24, 2019 and the men were subsequently arrested on Nov 6, 2019.
Investigations that followed showed that three of them were administrators of the group while one of them was in charge of the sale of the obscene materials.
They could have been given the maximum penalty of six months jail and/or $20000 fine for possession of obscene materials and another three months jail and/or fine for transmitting the materials.
They will return to court on a further date.
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