A 36-year-old Indonesian maid reportedly used her employer’s cheque book to write herself cheques that amounted to $18,000.
She then spent $10,000 of the stolen money on online games.
The crimes came to light on 10 April this year when the victim, 61-year-old Mdm Huang, discovered several cheques in her cheque book missing.
She then called the bank to ask and was told that the cheques that disappeared had been cashed, with many unauthorised transactions.
She then questioned the maid who admitted to taking the cheques but lied that she was threatened into doing so by 3 unknown men threatening to kill her.
A 60-year-old man was sentenced to 20 months jail on 22 June for 1 count of penetration of a child under the age of 16 while they were in an exploitative relationship.
Another similar charge was taken into consideration during sentencing.
He had reportedly befriended his grandson’s 14-year-old friend and sexually assaulted him at a staircase.
What happened?
The man was picking up his grandson from school at around November/December 2019 and met the boy.
He offered the boy a cigarette and they started talking before he asked the victim for his phone number.
The two would then meet about 6 times a week, for about 3 hours each time; the boy would also occasionally ask the man to help him buy cigarettes.
The boy’s father even met the man in January 2020, and asked him to advise the victim, as well as his younger brother.
The man agreed and told him that he treated his son and his brother as his own grandchildren.
On 19 January 2020, the man met the victim at a void deck, and the two smoked and chatted.
He then brought the boy to a staircase landing where he asked if he could perform a sexual act on him.
The boy said no but the man persisted and removed the boy’s pants, performing the sexual act for about 30 seconds.
The boy remained silent throughout and didn’t react as he didn’t know what to do.
The victim was at a police station on 29 February 2020 for a separate incident, when he then told the officers that he was sexually assaulted.
A 69-year-old grandfather, who was the sole caregiver to a 9-year-old girl while her parents were in jail for drug related offences, reportedly molested her repeatedly.
He was sentenced on 22 June to 5 years jail for 2 counts of outraging the modesty of a minor under 14-years-old.
The offences took place between 2012 and 2013, and he would massage and touch her inappropriately while her 6 siblings were sleeping in the next room.
The crimes saw the light of day when a neighbour was investigated for sexually abusing the girl, who is now 18-years-old.
What happened?
In 2012, the victim was aching after playing soccer, and her grandfather then massaged her with baby oil and touched her inappropriately while her siblings were sleeping at night.
The “massages” would continue to other occasions, when he would molest her for about 5 to 10 minutes while her siblings slept.
On one occasion in 2013, when the victim was about 10 to 11 years old, he called her into the bedroom and told her to lie down on the bed; he then removed both their clothes and climbed on top of her while fondling her.
He stopped molesting his granddaughter after her mother was released from prison in 2014.
The victim didn’t tell anyone about his offences as he was the only one providing for the family financially and she didn’t want to cause her family hardship.
An IMH report found that the man was at risk of reoffending as he showed no remorse.
Vinod Raj, 31-years-old, pleaded guilty on 22 June to 1 count each of assault, harassment and public nuisance; and he was sentenced to 2 weeks jail and fined $2,000.
He had reportedly boarded a taxi with his girlfriend and later refused to pay the taxi fare, before repeatedly punching and kicking the 52-year-old taxi driver on 2 September last year.
What happened?
Vinod boarded a taxi with his girlfriend on 2 September last year and told the driver to drive to Amber Glory Hotel, the driver said he didn’t know the location and asked Vinod to guide him upon reaching Aljunied.
The couple then fell asleep in side the taxi.
The driver then stopped at Lorong 25A Geylang and woke Vinod up, Vinod was unhappy at being woken up from his sleep and got into an argument with the driver.
Vinod told him that they were not at the correct place, and the driver asked him to pay extra to get to the hotel.
The couple then alighted and Vinod refused to pay, the driver then tried to stop him but Vinod then punched him in the face, before raining more blows on him.
The police were alerted to the fracas at around 8am and Vinod was then arrested.
He is currently out on bail and will begin his jail term on 29 June.
Woo Kong Choy, 61-years-old, was charged in court yesterday (22 June) for alleged corruption during his time as the building manager of Bugis Cube.
He is facing 3 charges of obtaining bribes and 1 charge of attempting to obtain a bribe “as an inducement for issuing renovation permits without ensuring the purchase of public liability insurance”.
He had purportedly obtained a total of $600 in bribes from tenants at Bugis Cube between April 2019 to October 2020; he also allegedly tried to obtain $200 in bribe from another tenant.
A Singaporean TikToker posted an interesting and lucrative challenge on his channel.
The user, @virasuria, posted a video yesterday that he hid $10 million in cash inside a briefcase and hid it behind some plants at an undisclosed HDB corridor.
The location appears to be at Choa Chu Kang.
Many netizens were seen responding to the challenge and going around looking for the bag.
Not sure if there really is that much cash inside or where and how he got the money.
He said that he will be returning to the spot in 3 days to see if anyone has taken it.
You can watch his video below for hints and clues:
(Yes, we are fully aware that the video was meant to be a joke)
The India variant of the Covid-19 virus (or “Delta variant” after being renamed) has mutated further to become the “Delta plus” variant.
The new variant has shown to be more contagious than its predecessor, and has been found in 16 cases in Maharashtra, India.
India has since declared the new India variant to be a “variant of concern”.
The country saw 50,848 new infections over the past 24 hours, with their total number of Covid-19 cases crossing the 30 million mark.
India is currently the world’s largest vaccine producer, however, their vaccination efforts so far have seen only 5.5% of 950 million eligible people being vaccinated.
Their healthcare system is overworked and overwhelmed, with hundreds of thousands dying during their second wave of infections back in April-May.
