Ex-CNB officer admits to pocketing nearly $1,300 from 2 men after they were arrested

V1 had been taken into custody on April 12, and more than $900 in cash and two mobile phones were seized.

He was admitted to a drug rehabilitation centre for a year in June 2022, and was later placed in a halfway house.

DPP Jheong said that Fayyaz pocketed V1’s money in November 2023.

On or around Jan 9, 2024, Fayyaz returned the two seized mobile phones to V1, who signed a CNB-issued acknowledgement slip indicating that he had received the devices.

But when V1 asked Fayyaz about the cash, the younger man replied that the amount was handled by another CNB officer, and promised that he would try to locate the money

V1 later told the chairman of the halfway house about the matter, and the latter contacted CNB, the court heard.

DPP Jheong said: “It was only then that the accused, intending to obstruct the court of justice, sought out V1 at his workplace and (handed) him a sum of $950.

“In addition, the accused also forged a CNB-issued acknowledgement slip to reflect that V1 had received…(more than $900 in cash) on Jan 9, 2024, when V1 had not.”

Fayyaz also committed similar offences involving V2, a 27-year-old man.

Among other things, he misappropriated more than $360 of V2’s money in January 2024 and transferred $400 to him two months later.

The DPP said: “On April 1, 2024… he instructed V2 to lie that the latter’s seized property had been returned to him on Jan 17, 2024, and to refrain from revealing to anyone that V2’s personal properties had not in fact been returned to him (in January).”

On April 5 that year, another CNB officer made a police report against Fayyaz over his offences.

Fayyaz was arrested later that day and was charged in court in January 2025. He will be sentenced in November.