A supervisor of a pork meat stall at a Woodlands wet market was handed 42 months’ jail for pocketing S$734,000 from cash sales over three years. — TODAY picSINGAPORE, May 24 — A supervisor of a pork meat stall at a Woodlands wet market pocketed about S$734,000 from cash sales over a period of more than three years.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal breach of trust, with another two for related offences taken into consideration during sentencing.At the time of his offences, Sun was working for JMS Trading and Supplies at a pork meat stall in a wet market located at Block 678A Woodlands Avenue 6.The stall was heavily reliant on cash transactions, with the proceeds of its daily sales kept in a locked drawer at the stall.
However, on repeated occasions between January 1, 2019 to April 30, 2022, he would misappropriate some of the cash from the sales proceeds before it was placed in the drawer and handed over to the representative. In 2021, he also misappropriated about S$156,060 and a further S$13,125 in the period up to April 2022. These two sums formed the basis for the charges taken into consideration.