Lin later sent Liu a tax payment certificate purportedly issued by the Chinese tax authorities as proof of her income for the application.
“Liu suspected that the document was forged, via edits made to one of the sample documents he had earlier sent Lin,” said SPF.
The 36-year-old then guided Lin to make further edits to the document so that the information within would be more consistent with her earlier representations to the bank regarding the source and amount of her income, it added.
Liu received several revised versions of the Chinese tax document from Lin on Nov 24, 2020, and submitted one of the versions to Julius Baer’s Singapore branch.
