Man jailed for using fake qualifications to get jobs at 38 companies

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For four years, Chin Ming Lik used fake qualifications to get civil engineering jobs at 38 companies, some of which paid him a salary of up to $9,000 monthly. The 49-year-old worked at each company for short periods of time between 2013 and 2017 and moved on quickly to...

Chin was placed on a police stop list to assist with investigations.

These included a scroll for an NUS First Class degree in civil engineering and a Building Construction Supervisors' Safety Course certificate supposedly from the Ministry of Manpower, both of which he had forged in or before January 2014.DPP Tan said:"He had heard that project managers in civil engineering drew good salaries and decided to forge the relevant certifications in order to obtain jobs in the field.

In a search of Chin's apartment after his arrest, the authorities found a forged A-level certificate and a Singapore Polytechnic certificate. It stated he had misplaced 10 original certificates when he moved house, a statement he knew to be false, said DPP Tan.

 

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