SINGAPORE — A previous Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer based at Changi Airport was fined S$29,000 on Tuesday (Dec 26) for acquiring voyagers’ close to home points of interest unlawfully.
Yeo Kian Boon, 31, had admitted to seven charges under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act. Another 16 tallies under the Act were thought about for condemning purposes.
The court was informed that on Dec 12, 2015, Yeo, who was conveyed at Changi Airport Terminal 1 landing corridor as a team lead, cleared a Thai lady’s entrance into Singapore.
As team lead, he approached ICA PC frameworks that recorded voyagers’ close to home points of interest and travel histories.
The next day, he included the Thai lady, Ms Kitimaporn Thummawipaporn, on Line, an messenger application. He additionally took a stab at calling her.
Agent Public Prosecutor Alexander Woon told the court that Ms Kitimaporn had a video call with Yeo, at the very latest Dec 22, 2015, and “was shocked to find that he was the ICA officer who had cleared her into Singapore”.
She revealed to her Singaporean BF about the issue, and he wrote to the ICA to lodge a complaint.
In the wake of talking with Ms Kitimaporn, Yeo got his associate Lau Jia Yi to get to an ICA gateway for her subtle elements. Lau affirmed that Yeo had screened her for section into Singapore, and furthermore sent some of her data to Yeo by means of WhatsApp.
On six different events on Dec 27, 2015, Yeo got to the records of other female voyagers from South Korea, Thailand and Japan. Court archives did not show what he did with the data.
Guard legal counselor Cory Wong contended that his customer’s aims were “gullible and honest”, and originated from a “flashing failure to comprehend the issues at hand”. Yeo, who is currently working in the managerial line, was “incompetent at associating with the opposite gender (and had needed to) manufacture his certainty by visiting with ladies on Line”, he included.