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.