Jail for man who made illicit withdrawals totalling over $20k at Sheng Siong’s teller machines

Court documents show that Izz had visited seven Sheng Siong Supermarket outlets on June 19, 2025, to withdraw money from the teller machines.

In total, Izz made 22 withdrawals amounting to $20,300 in cash.

Investigations later revealed that the entire sum came from one DBS bank account, belonging to an unnamed 47-year-old woman, which was linked to criminal proceeds obtained from 11 scam victims.

When officers questioned Izz on the origins of the $20,300, he claimed to have obtained the cash as part of a job that he had found on Telegram.

A chat group administrator had told him to visit various Sheng Siong supermarket outlets to make withdrawals at the teller machines.

At each machine, he was to make withdrawals until it was depleted of cash, before moving to another outlet to do the same.

Izz claimed he had not been given instructions on what to do with the collected amount thereafter.

But officers found he was unable to provide any proof to back up his claims, including any evidence of the Telegram chat group or instructions provided by the said group’s administrator.

The prosecutor said that Izz had taken no steps to ask about even the basic details of the alleged job opportunity.

“While the accused did not appear to be the mastermind, the accused’s participation was not minor as he had withdrawn cash from $TMs, effectively acting as a runner for laundering benefits of criminal conduct,” said the prosecutor.