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Monday, March 14, 2011

Filipino jailed 18 months for cheating bank

According to court documents, Mark Robert Fajilan Landicho had worked with two former employees from telemarketing company, Touch & Tech, to cheat the bank between July and October 2009.

One of them is, 26-year-old Charon Legaspi Dimpas, a fellow Filipino.


Landicho's colleagues first referred him to Dimpas in June 2009 as he wanted to apply for such services even though his salary did not meet the minimum requirement.

His application was approved after she doctored his pay slips.

Soon after this, 28-year-old Landicho started to help the syndicate solicit for customers by advertising its illicit services on pinoysg.com, a Singapore-based Filipino portal.
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Interested parties would forward him their genuine payslips via email.

He would send them over to his accomplices, earning S$75 for each successful application.

Defence Counsel Manoj Nandwani told the court that Landicho did not falsify the documents which led to the deception.

Mr Nandwani stressed that his client's role in the whole affair was "to forward information to the perpetrators" without taking part in the falsification itself.

In response to these, Deputy Public Prosecutor, Magdalene Huang told District Judge Jill Tan than the acts of forgery would not have taken place without Landicho's soliciting.


Landicho was sentenced on Monday to 18 months jail for being part of a conspiracy, cheating Standard Chartered Bank of S$317,100.

Dimpas, who used to be one of the firm's direct sales agents, was sentenced to 45 months behind bars after admitting last November that she was part of the scam.

Her then-boss, 60-year-old Singaporean Abdul Karim Baba, has not been dealt with in court.


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