Sharavindran Suppiah, 32, the third and final man linked to the robbery of an Ang Mo Kio jewellery store last year, pleaded guilty to four counts of dishonestly receiving stolen property and was sentenced on November 13 to 27 months jail and a fine of $20,000.
Deputy Public Prosecutors Thiagesh Sukumaran and Jeremy Bin told the court that the mastermind of the robbery, Jegatheesh, met two other people in Geylang on August 13 last year to plan the robbery.
The next day, Veeramani, the driver of the getaway car, met Jegatheese in a car at a carpark near Block 521 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 at around 2.40pm.
Jegatheesh then went to Hock Cheong Jade and Jewellery Shop and committed the robbery by himself, filling the duffing bag with valuables worth about $120,000 and ran into Veeramani’s getaway car, fleeing the scene.
Veeramani then met Sharavindran later that day, who inspected the bag’s contents; he then contacted a man and asked him to arrage for someone to buy the jewellery.
Jegatheesh told Sharavindran to safekeep the jewellery in a “safe” place while they figured out how to sell it, directin Veeramani to hide the stolen jewellery at Dakota Crescent inside some abandoned blocks of HDB flats.
Sharavindran hid the valuables into the cistern of a toilet bowl on the sixth storey of one of the blocks before leaving the scene, however the offenders were arrested and the loot was then recovered.