Tan Kok Kiong was sentenced to 24 weeks’ jail after pleading guilty to one cheating charge and 11 forgery charges.Across more than six years, a National University of Singapore professor submitted false claims for expenses and duped the university into reimbursing him over $88,000.
His job scope included teaching and conducting research in control, intelligent systems and robotics.On April 22, Deputy Public Prosecutor David Menon said that Tan submitted expense reports containing inflated claims to NUS and claims for expenses which he did not incur for work.To avoid detection and create legitimacy for these false claims, Tan made handwritten changes or used Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat to alter receipts and invoices.
He then submitted an expense report of $2,400 where he falsely claimed that this expenditure was related to an NUS project. According to an Institute of Mental Health report, Tan’s depression impaired his ability to fully appreciate the nature of his acts as he “believed that an act of retaliation would make him feel vindicated”.
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