168 people, ranging in age from 14 to 72, are being investigated by the police for their alleged involvement in unlawful money lending activities.
Officers from the Criminal Investigation Department and the seven Police land divisions conducted simultaneous searches around the island during a two-week anti-unlicensed moneylending operation that took place between September 20 and October 1, 2021.
Harassment
Preliminary investigations revealed that 14 suspects are suspected of harassing debtors at their homes
34 suspects are suspected of being runners who assisted in unlicensed ,moneylending businesses by making ATM transfers and one suspect is suspected of providing false contact information to an unlicensed moneylender, resulting in harassment.
Opened Bank Accounts and sell them to “ah long”
The remaining 119 suspects are believed to have opened bank accounts and provided their ATM cards, Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) and/or Internet Banking tokens to unlicensed moneylenders to facilitate their businesses.
Investigations against all the suspects are ongoing.
The Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of a 42-year-old Mr Kuan Ghim Eng who was last seen in the vicinity of No. 2 Yishun Walk on 29 September 2021 at about 10.10 pm.
Anyone with information is requested to call the Police Hotline at 1800-255-0000 or submit information online at www.police.gov.sg/iwitness.
All information will be kept strictly confidential.
According to ICA, they have seized a large number of weight loss products at Changi Airfreight Centre.
ICA said that they have foiled the attempt to smuggle 8,940 weight loss capsules suspected to contain banned substances into Singapore. The case was detected when our officers noticed anomalies in the scanned images of the parcels. The parcels were falsely declared as health supplements.
This case was referred to the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) for further investigation.
Products that are under control requires proper authorisation (advance notification, licence or certificate approval) from the relevant authorities.