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SINGAPORE \u2013 Fifteen people were charged on April 29 over their roles in assisting a syndicate incorporate shell companies, submitting work pass applications under these companies and letting others use their Singpass credentials. <\/p>\n
The 14 men and one woman, all Singaporeans, were recruited by a criminal network through Telegram or in person, according to investigations so far, the police said. All 15 of them were arrested in September 2024. <\/p>\n
The police reminded people against accepting monetary gains in exchange for the use of their Singpass accounts or credentials, they said in an April 28 statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police will take firm action against persons who give up their Singpass credentials to strangers or register for facilities on behalf of criminal syndicates, and prosecute such persons to the fullest extent of the law,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n
Lynn Sim Wei Ling, 34, faces two charges after using her Singpass account to help an unknown party access the e-services portal on the Singapore business registry to register a company, Timeout Pte Ltd. <\/p>\n
She is also accused of providing an unknown person the means to access her Singpass portal. <\/p>\n
Sim faces a third charge over obtaining work passes for six foreign nationals between February and July 2024 despite not requiring their employment and thereafter failing to employ them. <\/p>\n
She will return to court on May 7. <\/p>\n
Ang Kok Siang, 37, faces seven charges in total, including two for obtaining work passes for foreigners on 17 separate occasions between March and August 2024 as a director of Chiilling Pte Ltd and Lookhere Pte Ltd. <\/p>\n
He did this despite not requiring their employment and had failed to employ them after obtaining the work passes. <\/p>\n
Two charges relate to him aiding another man to employ a foreigner in April 2022 without a valid work pass, by obtaining a work permit for the foreign national as a migrant domestic worker under his employment despite knowing this was false. <\/p>\n
Ang was handed another three charges over providing access to his Singpass account to unauthorised individuals. Between February 2022 and October 2024, his account was used more than 1,800 times to gain unauthorised access to the corporate authentication platform used by the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority.<\/p>\n
His charge sheets state that those actions had facilitated fraudulent work-pass applications. He will return to court on May 12. <\/p>\n
Jyan Tan Lei, 22, is the youngest member in the group to be charged. <\/p>\n
He is charged over obtaining work passes for eight foreigners between July and August 2024, as the sole-proprietor of Brewski Bar, despite not requiring their employment and failing to employ them. <\/p>\n
He faces another charge after allowing an unknown individual to have unauthorised access to his Singpass portal. Tan will return to court on May 7.<\/p>\n
Chan Tuck Keong, 47, is the oldest to be charged in the group. <\/p>\n
Chan faces two charges over obtaining nine work passes on separate occasions between February and May 2024 for two companies, Lopi 27 and X123. <\/p>\n
He had done so despite not requiring their employment and failing to employ the foreigners. <\/p>\n
Chan was handed an additional three charges under the Computer Misuse Act on April 29 for letting unknown individuals access his Singpass account between June 2022 and October 2024. <\/p>\n
His charge sheets state that his actions had facilitated the fraudulent work-pass applications and unauthorised registration of companies on the business registry. Chan will return to court on May 7. <\/p>\n
Barry Nicholas Ong Kim Cheong, 35, faces four charges. He is accused of obtaining work passes for two foreign workers in 2024 despite not requiring their employment and failing to hire them. <\/p>\n
He is also accused of giving access to his OCBC bank account to an unknown person in December 2022, and giving his Singpass login credentials to unknown people between May 2023 and September 2024.<\/p>\n
Jackie Teo, 40, was handed one charge after giving his Singpass login details to an unknown individual sometime in 2020, resulting in the individual registering two companies, Letsing and Icon Lounge, on Teo\u2019s behalf. <\/p>\n
He is also facing two other charges over obtaining work passes for nine foreign nationals between February and July 2024 under both companies, despite not requiring their employment and failing to hire them. <\/p>\n
Ong and Teo will return to court on May 7. <\/p>\n
Jeffrey Ang Wei Hao, 31, faces two charges over facilitating access to his Singpass for unknown individuals in October 2023. He is also accused of obtaining work passes for four foreigners despite not requiring their employment and failing to hire them. <\/p>\n
Jeffrey Ang will return to court on May 5. <\/p>\n
Muhammad Adli Amran, 30, and Goh Wai Teck, 25, each faces one charge for obtaining work passes for foreign nationals despite not requiring their employment and failing to employ them. <\/p>\n
Adli was handed another two charges under the Computer Misuse Act after allowing unknown individuals to access his Singpass, register a company and apply for work pass applications on his behalf. <\/p>\n
Goh was also handed another two charges over giving up access of his Singpass to an unknown individual. <\/p>\n
Kang Yi He, 25, faces two charges after facilitating access to his Singpass account, and one for obtaining work passes for eight foreigners despite not needing their employment and never hiring them. <\/p>\n
Nicholas Choo Jun Hong, 30, faces three charges in total. Among other things, he had given an unknown individual access to his Singpass account in June 2023, which allowed the person to register companies on his behalf and apply for six work pass applications under that company between February and June 2024. <\/p>\n
Adli, Goh, Kang and Choo will return to court on May 7. <\/p>\n
Hong Weixiong, 38, Goh Cheng Hong, 30, Loh Kai Siang, 28, and Jaeger Tan Tianci, 23, each faces two charges after obtaining work passes for foreigners despite not requiring their employment and failing to employ those foreigners after the work passes were issued. <\/p>\n
Hong, Goh Cheng Hong and Loh were each handed another two charges over allowing unknown individuals to gain access to their Singpass to register companies and apply for work passes for foreign nationals. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Tan was given an additional charge after allowing unknown parties gain access to his Singpass to register companies and apply for work passes. <\/p>\n
Goh Cheng Hong, Loh and Tan will return to court on May 7. Hong will return to court on May 12. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n