According to an article by The New Paper, a 19 year old teen, Brayden Cheng Ming Yan who was first placed on probation for his role in laundering money as part of the OCBC phishing scams was ordered to undergo at least a year of reformative training (RT).
He would be kept in a centre for his RT where there would be a strict regimen for him to follow.
Some of these include doing foot drills and also undergoing counselling.
Had brushes with the law previously
Cheng in January had pleaded his guilt, acknowledging his involvement in the money laundering activities.
He also acknowledged that he had committed an offence under the Organised Crime Act.
He had previous brushes with the law as well.
In 2021 August, he was placed under probation as he had committed offences like rioting but just three months later in 2021 November, he chose to dabble in crime again all the way till 2022 February where he was involved in money laundering as part of the OCBC phishing scams.
Their role in the scams
Cheng, together with his co-accused had worked together to source and provide bank accounts to unknown persons which were believed to be linked to overseas syndicates and also provided money laundering services to them.
These accounts which they sourced were then used to commit the crimes, receiving money from the scam victims and also distributing out the funds which were scammed.
Cheng was paid $1,400 by the syndicate in 2021 December and 2022 January.
In all, the whole group provided 16 bank accounts to the syndicates which were used to received almost $600,000 worth of funds from the victims.
Other people linked to the scams such as 32 year old Mark Teo Sin Yan, and Leong Jun Xian who was then 21 had already been dealt with while several others who were also involved such as 20 year old Kong Jia Quan and 20 year old Muhammad Khairuddin Eskandariah have their cases still pending.
To start his sentence on 16 Feb
Cheng is now out on a $30,000 bail and he would be expected to show up in court on 16 February to start serving his sentence.
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