A 33-year-old man, Muhammad Fariz Shaik Sha Marican, scammed his employer out of greater than SGD24,000 (US$17,950) by forging over 460 Seize receipts and false timesheets.
On Tuesday, he pleaded responsible to 2 fees of forgery, with two further fees to be thought of throughout sentencing. Deputy Public Prosecutor Kelly Ng said that Fariz was employed by the recruitment company Persolkelly (PSK), which partnered with Ministry of Well being (MOH) to offer staffing.
In November 2021, PSK assigned Fariz as momentary assist employees for MOH’s Covid-19 operations. By April 2023, as MOH thought of making him a everlasting employees member, they reviewed his annual depart stability.
Following this overview, each PSK and MOH filed police reviews, resulting in an investigation that exposed Fariz had cast Seize receipts on 228 events from July 2022 to April 2023.
He digitally altered dates and occasions on current receipts for rides he by no means took, submitting them to PSK and acquiring over SGD9,500 in fraudulent reimbursements.
Moreover, between July 2022 and April 2023, he cast his supervisor’s signature on timesheets, falsely claiming time beyond regulation, leading to SGD7,700 in fraudulent funds.
The fraud was uncovered in April 2023 throughout MOH’s overview of his depart information, which revealed discrepancies between PSK and MOH in timesheets and transport claims. Fariz confessed in a letter and resigned earlier than his arrest in July 2023.
The prosecutor requested a six to eight-month jail time period, highlighting the calculated nature of his actions.
“Every time the accused cast a receipt or timesheet, he needed to put within the deliberate effort of altering it digitally or filling it up with further days or hours, and every time he did this, he had the chance to cease his offending. As a substitute, he didn’t accomplish that,” mentioned the prosecutor.
