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Ex-accounts officer pleads guilty to forging company cheques, taking nearly $1.4m to gamble

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SINGAPORE - An accounts officer in a family-owned firm dealing with electronics forged cheques from another company with the same owners and pocketed nearly $1.4 million.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE - An accounts officer in a family-owned firm dealing with electronics forged cheques from another company with the same owners and pocketed nearly $1.4 million.

He was also entrusted with keeping its cheques and preparing them for issuance for company matters, subject to at least two authorised signatories.As part of the ruse, he brought home blank company cheques before forging the signatures of two authorised signatories - a human resource executive and a finance manager.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Regina Lim said:"He did so by first creating a Microsoft Excel template using a genuine invoice that he took home from the office.

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