employee in the human resources department was sentenced to 18 months in prison for payroll fraud, pocketing over S$139,000 in the form of false claims and embezzlements.
She was then promoted to being the firm’s HR associate director and was the only employee to have password access to the payroll.Her first bogus claims were filed in November 2018, for a S$4,000 bill of “transport allowance” and an “extra allowance” of S$1,500 into the system as well as entering another claim S$5,500 the next month.
Not only that, Lee Nah was found misappropriating funds earlier in August 2017 where she cashed in two company cheques totalling S$3,147 , meant for a new employee’s Central Provident Fund’s contributions, into her personal account. During the trial, the prosecution sought to sentence her between 18 months and six weeks’ jail, and 18 months and eight weeks’ jail, seeing that her crimes spanned for a period of more than two years.S$1 billion in cash, assets seized in money laundering probe in SG, 10 foreigners arrested