Civil servant jailed for cheating MHA

An assistant executive from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) was jailed eight years and eight months yesterday for cheating the ministry of S$617,087 over four years.

Liew Chee Meng (picture), 35, forged over 90 documents to buy gift vouchers. He used them to make personal purchases, including several branded bags such as a S$15,900 Hermes bag, as well as shoes and jewellery.

He carried out his crimes for nearly four years starting from 2007, until the MHA's finance department made enquiries into the large amounts of the transactions.

Liew, who was earlier charged with 455 counts of forgery, cheating, criminal breach of trust and money laundering, was found guilty on 28 of these charges.

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