SINGAPORE: A man who played a middleman to facilitate applications for work permits and harvest bank accounts in Singapore for a Sarawak-based syndicate was sentenced to jail on Thursday (Oct 22) for six years and one month.
Ong Toon Nong, a 41-year-old Malaysian national, was also fined S$6,000 (US$4,700).
The transnational syndicate offered money to Malaysians to open bank accounts in Singapore for illegal use, such as for scams.
These money mules needed work permits to enter Singapore and open the bank accounts, so Ong brokered a deal that would earn him S$200 for each work permit that was successfully applied for.
He intentionally facilitated the entry of 27 Malaysian money mules into Singapore and was responsible for cheating six banks in Singapore into opening a total of 107 bank accounts in the names of these money mules.
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