Student who posed as MAS official at scammers’ bidding gets 8 weeks’ jail

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He was roped in by scammers to work as an 'undercover agent'.

Chinese national Li Jiarui, a computer science student at the Singapore Institute of Management, pleaded guilty to two charges.

As part of the purported investigations, he opened several bank accounts and gave the details to the “Chinese police”. He was on such a mission on July 16, 2023 to help a woman download a mobile application that would give scammers remote access to her phone, when he was arrested. In October 2022, Li applied to open a CIMB bank account under the instructions of the “Chinese police”. He claimed in a form that he would be the sole operator of the account, even though he intended to relinquish it to the fraudsters.Seeking a jail term of 11 to 15 weeks’ jail for Li, Deputy Public Prosecutor Matthew Choo said the accused had received substantial funds in his DBS bank account, some of which were tainted.

 

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