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SINGAPORE — A 19-year-old student who posed as a Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) official to help scammers defraud a woman here was sentenced to eight weeks in jail on April 18. Chinese national Li Jiarui, a computer science student at the Singapore Institute of Management, pleaded guilty to two charges.

Chinese national Li Jiarui pleaded guilty to two charges.SINGAPORE — A 19-year-old student who posed as a Monetary Authority of Singapore official to help scammers defraud a woman here was sentenced to eight weeks in jail on April 18.

He then got a call from "Chinese police" who told him he was being investigated for money laundering. Li did not verify the authenticity of these claims. For this role, he was given a fake MAS official identity card and was told he would be sent on "missions". He received a total of $245,450 in his DBS bank account and transferred almost all of it to other bank accounts. Of the sum, $82,350 were traced to scam victims.

 

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