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M'sian woman jailed for pocketing over $38k to spend on Chinese idols
A 20-year-old Malaysian was sentenced to four months' jail on July 10 after misappropriating more than $38,000 from her employer to donate to "Chinese idols" on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. Chew Yu En initially claimed she had used the money to repay her father's debts, but later admitted to spending it on her idols on the social media platform, according to court documents reported by CNA. She pleaded guilty to one count of dishonest misappropriation by an employee. A second charge of making false entries on payment vouchers was taken into consideration during sentencing. Chew worked as a clerk at Sin Le Heng Recycling from June 2024 to Jan 2025, earning a monthly salary of $2,300. She was in Singapore on a work permit and rented a room with her boyfriend. According to CNA, Chew's only family member in Singapore was her uncle, who is a permanent resident. The company she worked for bought recyclable materials from customers, who would have their items weighed at its warehouse. Warehouse staff would collect the items and issue a note indicating the weight and quantity of the materials. The customer would then head to the counter with the note and receive a payment voucher issued by a clerk. After the customer signed the voucher, the clerk would pay the stated amount in cash, which was kept in a box at the office counter. When the cash ran low, Chew would notify her boss, who would either hand her the money to top up the box or do so himself after office hours. Around December last year, while her boss was abroad, Chew worked alone in the office most of the time. According to court documents cited by Shin Min Daily News, Chew took money from the cash box on 42 occasions between Dec 2, 2024, and Jan 9, 2025 - with amounts ranging from $65 to more than $2,000. In total, she took $38,315.30 from the box. To conceal her acts, Chew created false payment vouchers and signed them herself. On Jan 8, the company director discovered discrepancies in the accounts and confronted Chew the next day. She admitted to her acts, and the case was reported to the police. Chew has not returned the money taken. The prosecutor sought four to six months' jail, citing similar past cases. Chew was given four months' jail.
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Clerk pocketed more than S$38,000 from recycling firm to donate to 'Chinese idols' on Douyin
SINGAPORE: A 20-year-old woman was given four months' jail on Thursday (Jul 10) for pocketing more than S$38,000 (US$29,700) from a recycling firm. She initially lied that she had taken the money to repay her father's debt, but later admitted that she had donated the cash to "Chinese idols" on the Douyin online streaming platform. Malaysian Chew Yu En pleaded guilty to one count of dishonest misappropriation by an employee. A second charge of making false entries on payment vouchers was taken into consideration. The court heard that Chew and her family lived in Malaysia before June 2024. Her only family member who lived in Singapore was her uncle, a permanent resident. In June 2024, Chew began work as a clerk at Sin Le Heng Recycling, earning a monthly salary of S$2,300. She stayed in Singapore on a work permit, living with her boyfriend in a rented room, the prosecutor said. Sin Le Heng bought materials for recycling from various customers. Those who wanted to sell items would go to the company's warehouse to have them weighed. Warehouse staff would collect the items and issue a note specifying the weight and quantity. The customer would then head to a counter to collect payment and receive a payment voucher issued by a clerk. After the customer signs the voucher, the clerk would pay the customer the amount in cash. In her role as a clerk, Chew was entrusted with the company's petty cash, which was kept in a box at her counter in the office. She would pay customers for the items they sold using the petty cash. If the petty cash was running low, she would inform her boss about it, and he would top it up by handing the money to her personally or placing it in the box after office hours. Sometime before Dec 2, 2024, Chew's direct supervisor went overseas. This meant that Chew was often the only one in the office. Over 42 occasions from Dec 2, 2024 and Jan 9, 2025, Chew took a total of S$38,315.30 in petty cash from the box. She began with smaller amounts like S$198 and S$65.50 and increased this to over a thousand dollars. The largest single amount she took, according to court documents, was S$2,782.50 on Christmas Eve last year. To evade detection, Chew wrote false payment vouchers detailing fictitious purchases and signed them herself before pocketing the corresponding cash amounts. On two occasions, she did make payments to customers for genuine purchases, but also misappropriated the same cash amounts using the genuine payment vouchers. A director of the company noticed discrepancies in the records on Jan 8 this year. He confronted Chew about this the next day, and Chew admitted that she had been misappropriating the company's petty cash. Her supervisor called the police that same day, and they arrested Chew. Chew initially lied that she had taken the cash to repay her father's debt. However, she later admitted that she had donated the money to unspecified Chinese idols on Douyin. She made no restitution. The prosecutor sought four to six months' jail, citing similar past cases. Chew was unrepresented. She initially tried to adjourn the case, saying she wanted to leave the country. The judge then told her he was unlikely to grant her application to leave jurisdiction, and the plea was taken but the sentence deferred.
