SINGAPORE: A delivery driver in debt pocketed more than S$18,000 in cash as well as mobile phones worth S$3,850 from Ninja Van customers.
He was also responsible for the deliveries of trade-in mobile phones. Ninja Van told CNA in a statement on Wednesday evening that this system was for customers who bought mobile phones via an online sales channel from shippers who were Ninja Van's clients.A specially trained driver was to visit the customer and assess the condition of the phone to be traded in to offset the cost of the new phone.
Part of the money was also paid to loan sharks, said the prosecutor, and Tan sold the phones on Carousell. The manager eventually called the police. Tan was traced to M Hotel using the GPS in the company van assigned to him, and he admitted that he had taken the items and cash.The prosecutor asked for at least eight months' jail, saying that the S$200 Tan had returned was"insignificant" considering the total sum taken.