A 37 year old former AIA insurance agent, Sng Kang Xiang, was sentenced to a year imprisonment for cheating his primary school friend of $24,900 with a fake insurance policy and forged AIA letter.
He pleaded guilty to one count of cheating and forgery, and still has two other charges taken into consideration by the court in his sentencing.
He knew the victim since Primary school, and they always had a trusting relationship as the victim has bought other policies from him before.
Sng introduced the policy to his friend with the context that she will be buying it from an existing policy holder and that it only costs her $24,900
She will only need to hold the policy for a year and she will be able to get her capital back and another USD$4000.
She proceeded to transfer him the $24,900 but did not receive any policy documents like how she would usually receive from Sng after purchasing a policy.
Investigations then revealed that the money had been transferred to Sng’s account instead of AIA as per protocol, and that Sng had used the money to pay for his own flat renovations and credit card bills.
The victim subsequently grew suspicious and began chasing Sng for payment so he forged an AIA letterhead to state that the policy has indeed been transferred to her.
She wanted to go down to AIA to check but Sng got wind of it and dissuaded her.
She eventually managed to go down to AIA and found out that there was no such policy. AIA then made a police report in August 2018 and refunded her.
Sng made full repayment back to AIA subsequently.
The prosecutor asked for a year’s jail for Sng stating that this was an insurance scam and that there was public interest in prevention of such scams from happening.
His lawyer asked for a shorter sentence of eight months instead arguing that Sng has made full repayment and that this was his first offence.
The judge decide to agree with the prosecutor on the fact that there was public interest in the prevention of such scams but allowed Sng to defer the start of his sentence to settle his matters as he has just sold off his house.
A 18 year old male has been sentenced to 21 months probation for molesting a girl who is underage as well as throwing his neighbour’s stool down from the 6th floor of a HDB flat.
The probation conditions are that he has stay home from 10pm to 6pm, do 60 hours of community service, and get treated at the Institute of Mental Health’s National Addictions Management Service for his alcoholism.
On top of that he needs to attend treatment for his sexual offending behaviours.
His father has paid bond of $5000 to ensure that he behaves during the probation period.
Here is what happened
It happened two years back when the man was 16, he molested a girl then aged 13 after drinking.
The girl was one of the three invited guests to his friend’s place. The man had 12 to 13 cans of beer before the girl arrived.
The man approached the victim when she was sitting on the bed and pleaded her to have sex with him, subsequently pushing her to the bed and touching her inappropriately all over her body.
The victim refused his advances and ran out of the house.
Here is when he stole a fixie
The man saw a fixie which could fetch a good price outside Bedok’s Decathlon, stole it and rode it home.
Friends of the man told him that this is a good brand and even when sold secondhand could get him a lot of money.
He eventually sold it on Carousell for $750 but was detained by plainclothes police when he met the buyer to transact.
Threw a stool down from HDB
Shortly after the stealing incident, he decided to throw his neighbour’s stool down from the 6th floor after playing truant.
A police report was made against him and he denied initially because he was afraid of getting into trouble.