On September 23, ICA officials at Singapore’s Airport Logistics Park (Air Cargo Command) thwarted an effort to smuggle 12800 duty-free cigarettes hidden in a rolling paper drum.
The officers discovered these instances after noticing abnormalities in the scanned pictures of the consignment.
Many Singaporeans have a hobby of not taking their ‘number 2’ in a coffeeshop toilet as it could be very wet dirty most people opt to use the toilet in Shopping malls.
Under the Points Demerit System, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) would suspend the license of 7 Stars, a food store (eating house) located at 85 Dawson Road, #01-02, Singapore 141085. On September 24, 2021, the suspension will be lifted for one day.
he licensee has accumulated 12 demerit points over a 12-month period and was fined a total of $1300 for the following offences:
The second suspect, 41-year-old Ng Chek Kiang Angelo, was apprehended on September 24, 2021, for his alleged involvement in an armed robbery at a business along Temple Street.
On September 24, 2021, the first suspect, a 37-year-old male, was apprehended and charged in court on September 25, 2021.
On September 26, 2021, at about 3.20 p.m., detectives from the Central Police Division arrested the second suspect near Hougang Ave 5. On September 28, 2021, he will be charged with armed robbery with common purpose under Section 392 read with Section 397 and Section 34 of the Penal Code.
The offence entails a sentence of not less than three years in jail and not more than 14 years in prison, as well as 12 cane strokes.
Between September 10 and 24, 2021, officers from the Commercial Affairs Department and seven Police Land Divisions undertook a two-week operation. A total of 236 males and 100 women, ranging in age from 12 to 74, are presently cooperating with investigations for their possible involvement in schemes as scammers or money mules.
The suspects are suspected of being involved in over 1439 scam cases, including Internet love scams, e-commerce scams, China officials impersonation scams, government officials impersonation scams, business email impersonation scams, investment scams, job scams, and loan scams, in which victims have lost over $13 million.
Cheating, money laundering, and offering payment services without a license are among the charges being probed against them.
Money laundering is punishable by a maximum sentence of ten years in jail, a fine of $500,000, or both under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking, and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act.
Carrying on a business of offering any form of payment service in Singapore without a license is punishable by a fine of up to $125,000 and a term of imprisonment of up to one year under Section 5 of the Payment Services Act 2019.
Gozar Rose Magtanong, a 32-year-old Filipina maid for worked for a Singapore PR and her family, was sentenced to 4 weeks imprisonment on 27 September.
She had used her employer’s facial products, spat inside the family’s drinking water and poured water from the toilet bowl into it.
What happened?
The maid’s employer noticed that her cosmetic creams were finishing faster than normal.
The employer then installed CCTVs in her kitchen and bedroom.
She then found out that Gozar had used her creams 28 times, from 29 July to 8 September 2020.
They then brought the maid to her agency, JPB Employment Agency on 10 September to terminate her employment with them.
The agency’s customer service officer then interviewed Gozar, who confessed that she also spat saliva into the family’s drinking water jug.
Gozar also admitted that she had put toilet bowl water into the family’s drinking water on many occasions by dipping a cloth that she used to clean the TVs and tables ito the toilet bowl and wringing out the dirty water into a small bucket.
She would then pour the water from the small bucket into their drinking water jug.
The maid’s employer then reviewed her CCTV footage from the kitchen and saw Gozar spitting into the water, which the whole family had drank from unknowingly.
Allegedly mistreated
Gozar’s lawyer, Kevin Liew, said in mitigation that the maid was allegedly mistreated, highlighting that MOM is investigating the maid’s claim that she was owed 2 months and 10 days of pay.
He argued that Gozar allegedly slept at midnight and woke up around dawn, and that her mobile phone was allegedly kept by her employer so that she couldn’t contact her family.
Liew added that Gozar was made to eat bread and coffee in the mornings, porridge in the afternoon and fed with leftovers in the evenings, and that she was allegedly scolded for eating eggs in the house.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Grace Teo responded by saying that the complaints were no related to the present case that that have no mitigating considerations on the sentence to be imposed for the current case.